Table 1.

Study inclusion criteria

Characteristics	Criteria for quantitative studies
Population	Patients discharged from hospital to their permanent residence (home, residential unit or nursing home)
Intervention of interest	Medicines reconciliation completed by a pharmacist based in the community
Comparator	Usual care processes for medication reconciliation
Outcome measure	Discrepancy identification Discrepancy categorisation Healthcare usage (readmission, emergency department attendance, GP attendance) Workload/efficiency measures—time to complete medicines reconciliation, effect on number of primary and secondary care appointments needed, and economic outcomes
Study design	RCTs, cluster RCTs, quasi-RCTs, cluster quasi-RCTs, controlled pre–post intervention studies, interrupted-time-series, cohort studies (prospective or retrospective), case–control studies, uncontrolled pre–post intervention studies
Language	No limitation
Publication date	No limitation

GP, general practitioner or primary care physician; RCTs, randomised controlled trials.