The interventions section of the template is designed to capture details about the interventions received in each group of the study.

Interventions are user defined within the template at a review level and will appear for all studies in the data extraction. When completing data extraction for studies that do not include all possible interventions, users can leave columns blank or enter a standard ‘not reported’ in fields that are not relevant to a given study. 

There are no default fields within the template and the section is broken down into two subheadings, described in more detail below.

 

Interventions

Interventions are defined at a review level in the template as shown below. Interventions added to the template will show on all studies. All fields are free text and can be added and deleted within the template as required. 

Intervention characteristics

The intervention characteristics subheading does not include any default fields. Custom fields can be added to suit your review.

Within the template, you can add characteristics to capture details about the interventions received within the study, as shown below. All fields are free text and can be added and deleted within the template as required. 

Intervention characteristics will depend on the type of variation expected between studies. For example, if the template intervention is ‘Beta agonist’ as shown below, characteristics may be needed to record how the intervention was defined in the study, the dose, frequency, and mode of delivery (e.g. inhaled, oral, type of inhaler…).

 

Intervention characteristics defined in the template will appear as a table when completing data extraction for each study, with columns for each user-defined intervention group.