Table 3 Limitations of specific studies
From: Implicit bias in healthcare professionals: a systematic review
| Recruitment method not reported | 1 [59] |
| Failed to report response rate | 12 [20, 33, 34, 36,37,38,39, 48,49,50, 59, 63] |
| Response rate reported as ‘low’ | 1 [41] |
| Response rate less than 40% | 7 [21, 26, 43, 58, 62, 64, 65] |
| Explicitly informed participants of the purpose of the study | 7 [25, 27, 32, 42, 58, 60, 67] |
| Gave participants tests or questionnaires that indicated patient characteristic under scrutiny prior to vignette | 2 [48, 49] |
| Did not specify whether they informed participants about the purpose of the study | 16 [22, 24, 28,29,30,35,31, 34,35,36, 39, 44, 59, 61, 62, 64, 66] |
| Small sample size | 3 [20, 21, 48] |
| Failed to report calculating power when designing study | All studies failed except the 15 referenced here that did [27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36, 39, 40, 42, 43, 59] |
| Full information on statistical methods used not provided | 4 [32, 49, 61, 63] |
