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Table 1 Quality assessment of SPITs articles

From: Improving quality through process change: a scoping review of process improvement tools in cancer surgery

Criterion

Explicit inclusion/exclusion criteria described

Controls described

Tool compliance reported

Primary outcomes explicitly described

Primary outcome criteria objectively applied

Sustainability of tool evaluated

 

N

%

N

%

N

%

N

%

N

%

N

%

Present

120

55

88

65

59

26

192

84

138

62

6

3

Absent

99

45

48

35

167

74

36

16

41

18

226

94

Unknown

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

44

20

0

0

Not applicable

13

6

96

41

6

3

4

2

9

4

0

0