Table 2.

Recruitment of patients and dates of study periods

	Standard	Intervention
Assessed for eligibility	431	403
Excluded, not meeting study criteria
Admitted outside study period	29	33
Discharged outside study period	58	85
Died during hospital stay	9	9
Used less than three regular medications at admission	98	58
Transferred to another medical team during study period	111	84
Readmitted during study period, already recruited	5	22
Included in study and exposed to intervention	121	112
Follow-up, primary outcome not assessable	20	4
Primary outcome data analysed	101	108
Dates of study periods
Team 1	Jul–Sep 2010	Oct–Dec 2010
Team 2	Oct–Dec 2010	Jan–Mar 2011
Team 3	Jan–early Mar 2011	Late Mar–May 2011
Team 4	Jan–early Mar 2011	Late Mar–May 2011