Table 7.

Treatment event rates from the meta-analyses

	Events/total participants		Percentage of participants with the event
	Intervention	Control	Intervention	Control
Proportion hospitalised
Boyd 2009 [27]***	276/2009	351/2010	13.7	17.4
Gibson 2002 [31]***	85/1200	139/1218	7.1	11.4
Tapp 2007 [38]***	40/286	74/286	14.0	25.9
RECURSIVE	80/1727	124/1734	4.6	7.2
Proportion with A&E attendances
Boyd 2009 [27]***	337/1505	462/1503	22.4	30.7
Gibson 2002 [31]***	291/1457	354/1445	20.0	24.5
Tapp 2007 [38]***	74/472	104/474	15.7	22.0
RECURSIVE	153/1171	227/1170	13.1	19.4
Proportion with unscheduled visits
Boyd 2009 [27]***	128/515	181/494	24.9	36.6
Gibson 2002 [31]***	112/784	170/772	14.3	22.0

Abbreviations: A&E accident and emergency