Arthur 2002 Methods Participants Interventions Outcomes Purpose: To compare effect of offering home health check and appointment in vaccination clinic to increase influenza vaccination Design: Randomised 1/3 to receive 30 minute health check and offer of influenza vaccine at home, and 2/3 to receive personal letter to attend vaccination clinic in surgery, Duration of study: October to 4 December 2000 Interval between intervention and when outcome was measured: Letters mailed October 2000; health checks undertaken 2 October to 4 December 2000 Power computation: 99% power at alpha = 0.05 for uptake of 64% in health check group compared to 50% in personal letter group Statistics: X2 to analyse difference in uptake bewtween trial arms; Intention to treat Country: UK Setting:34 physician general practice in Leicestershire. Eligible participants: (health status)All 2052 patients >=75 living in community Age: > 75 years Sex: 60% female Intervention 1: health check at home; Intervention 2: invitation to attend vaccination clinic. Outcome measured: % influenza vaccination; how receipt of vaccine was recorded not stated, but as is single practice, sole purpose of this intervention in influenza vaccianton, and vaccination clinics and home visits are by practice nurses can be expected to be complete Time points from the study that are considered in the review or measured or reported in the study: 2 October to 4 December 2000Notes Risk of bias table Item Adequate sequence generation? Allocation concealment? Blinding? Incomplete outcome data addressed? Free of selective reporting? ‘% vaccinated by 31 December 2000 Funding: Melton, Rutland and Harborough Primary Care Group, Leicestershire Health Judgment Description [eS] SAS data analysis program assigned codes ao my ‘of 2408 patients, 356 in nursing home or sheltered accomodation; of 680 [7] tandomised to health check, 468 received “A health check and 680 followed up; of 1372 randomised to personal letter, 66 received flu vaccine at home and 1372 followed up es