Methods	RCT Concealment of allocation: DONE Follow up of patients: 3 months Blinded assessment of outcomes: NO Follow- up of patients: 1 AND 3 months Baseline measurement: DONE Reliable primary outcome measure: DONE Protection against contamination: NOT CLEAR
Participants	Location: UK Elderly patients recovering from elective surgery or emergency medical admissions (31% fracture neck of femur, 21% other fractures, 11% hip replacement, 10% cerebrovascular accidents, 10% knee replacements, 22% miscellaneous reasons for admission) Mean age: 78.3 (SD 6.9) - from IPD dataset Treatment = 160 (of which 50/160 had a medical diagnosis) Control = 81 (of which 25/81 had a medical diagnosis)
Interventions	Hospital at home (early discharge) Type of service: early discharge from hospital; no night care Control group: hospital care which included development of care pathways and discharge planning Control group: in-patient hospital care
Outcomes	Resource and cost
Notes
Risk of bias
Bias	Authors’ judgement	Support for judgement
Allocation concealment (selection bias)	Low risk	A - Adequate