Describing workplace interventions aimed to improve health of staff in hospital settings – a systematic review

Worley, Verity; Fraser, Penny; Allender, Steven; Bolton, Kristy A.

doi:10.1186/s12913-021-07418-9

BMC Health Services Research

Table 2 ICROMS [36] quality analysis on studies meeting the inclusion criteria

From: Describing workplace interventions aimed to improve health of staff in hospital settings – a systematic review

	Barene [18]	Hewitt [38]	Kullgren [39]	Lemon [40]	Low [41]	Lowe [42]	Matsugaki [43]	Ostbye [44]	Palumbo [45]	Stenner [46]	Strijk [47]	Thorndike [48]	Borg [49]	Hamm [50]	LaCaille [13]	Sallon [51]	Yuan [52]
	2014	2008	2013	2010	2015	2010	2017	2015	2012	2020	2012	2012	2010	2019	2016	2017	2009
1. Clear aims and justification
A. Clear statement of the aims of the research	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓
2. Managing bias in sampling or between groups
A. Sequence Generation	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓	✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
B. Allocation Concealment	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓	✓	✓	✓✓	✓	✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
D. Intervention and control group selection designed to protect against systematic difference/selection bias	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	✓	✓✓	✓✓	✗	✗
3. Managing bias in outcome measurements and blinding
A. Blinding	✓	✗	✓✓	✓	✓	✗	✓✓	✓	✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
B. Protection against selection bias	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓
C. Protection against contamination	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓	✓
E. Protection against detection bias	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓	✓✓
F. Reliable primary outcome measures	✓✓	✓✓	✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓
4. Managing bias in follow-up
A. Follow-up of subjects (protection against exclusion bias)	✗	✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓	✗	✓✓	✓✓	✗	✓✓	✗	✗	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
B. Follow-up of patients or episodes of care	✗	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓	✗	✓✓	✓✓	✗	✓✓	✓	✓✓	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
C. Incomplete outcome data addressed	✓✓	✓	✓✓	✓	✓✓	✓	✓	✓✓	✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓	✓
5. Managing bias in other study aspects
A. Protection against detection bias: Intervention unlikely to affect data collection	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
6. Analytical rigour
C. Analysis sufficiently rigorous/free from bias	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓
7. Managing bias in reporting/ethical considerations
A. Free of selective outcome reporting	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓
B. Limitations addressed	✓✓	✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓	✓✓
C. Conclusions clear and justified	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓
D. Free of other bias	✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓	✓	✗	✓✓	✓	✗	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓	✓
E. Ethics issues addressed	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✗	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓	✓✓
Met mandatory criteria
	✗	✗	✓	✗	✗	✗	✓	✗	✗	✓	✓	✗	✗	✓	✓	✗	✗
Met minimum score (≥22 if RCT, ≥18 if CBA)
Score	25	26	30*	26	25	19	30*	28	18	30*	28*	26	25	27*	27*	20	22

Legend ✓✓ criterion met; ✓ unclear whether criterion met; ✗ criterion not met; N/A: not applicable to the study design in question
RCT randomised controlled trial; CBA controlled before after; * meets both mandatory criteria and minimum score

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