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Table 2 Risk of Bias Among Randomized Controlled Trials of ICU Bereavement Intervention1

From: Bereavement interventions to support informal caregivers in the intensive care unit: a systematic review

Study Random sequence generation Allocation concealment Blinding of participants, researchers Blinding of outcome assessment Incomplete outcome data2 Selective reporting
Barnato et al., 2017 [29] Low Low High Low High Low
Kentish-Barnes et al., 2017 [28] Low Low High Low High Low
Tawil et al., 2014 [30] Low Low High Unclear High Low
  1. 1Determined by the Cochrane Risk of Bias Assessment Tool
  2. 2Overall attrition above 20% represents high risk of attrition bias; attrition below 20% and unequal between intervention and control group represents high risk of attrition bias; ratings of unclear represent that either overall attrition or attrition between groups was not reported