Methods	Allocation: ’random allocation’, no further details. Blinding: none. Duration: 2 years. Setting: San Francisco, USA.
Participants	Diagnosis: schizophrenia (57% paranoid) (Mosher criteria). N=141. Age: mean 23, range 15-38 years. Sex: 50% women. Marital status: 84% single. Race: 10% black. Social class: 85% III -V. History: ’short-term’ 31; ’long-term’ 29.
Interventions	Short term admission (21-28 days): early discharge plan, rapid assessment, “crisis resolution” management ethos, phenothiazine medication; long-range recommendations for further post-discharge treatment or rehabilitation. N=71 Long-term admission (90-120 days): assessment (2-3 weeks), psychotherapy, phenothiazine medication and/or “major rehabilitative measures” (change of home/job or workshop placement). N=70 Similar fixed drug regimes across groups.
Outcomes	Readmission. Average length of hospital stay. Delay in discharge. Leaving hospital prematurely. Lost to follow-up. Mental state. HSRS, PEF. Unemployed. Economic data. Unable to use - Social function: KAS, Behavior Inventory (no SD). User satisfaction: PSECS (no SD). Family burden: PEF (no SD). Employment status: BFR, PEF, PSECS , FMECS (no SD).
Notes	Mosher criteria - see Mosher 1971. Differences reported between groups (long stay - more education, higher socio-economic status, better pre-morbid adjustment & higher mean dose antipsychotics - 644 mg CPZ equivalents versus 328 mg). First report on subset of 61 people (Glick 1974) presented only usable data from PEF & HSRS (percentage not improved)
Risk of bias
Item	Authors’ judgement	Description
Allocation concealment?	Unclear	B - Unclear