Table.

Numbers of patients receiving institutional care at the end of scheduled follow up and use of hospital beds among those allocated to day hospital or alternative services

	Institutional care				Bed use (days)
Control group	Day hospital	Control	Odds ratio (95% CI)		Day hospital	Control
Comprehensive care (5 trials)	151/597*	159/584	0.91 (0.70 to 1.19)		20.5	21.4
Domiciliary care (4 trials)	20/216	19/227	1.61 (0.30 to 8.55)		7.7	11.1
No comprehensive care (3 trials)	37/411	66/403	0.50† (0.26 to 0.96)		11.2	11.7
Total	208/1224	244/1214	0.77 (0.52 to 1.13)		15.0	16.4

^*Data not available for 1 trial. 

^†P<0.05 (random effects model).