Study	Reason for exclusion
den Exter 2016	Patients were randomised to either outpatient treatment or to management based on NT‐pro BNP levels, and not to either home or inpatient management.
HOME Study	Patients were randomised to either Hestia or PESI management, and non‐randomised to either inpatient or outpatient treatment.
Kovacs 2003	RCT which evaluated different doses of warfarin in outpatients
Otero 2010	RCT which evaluated 3 to 5 days in the hospital as 'outpatients'
Zondag 2011	Cohort study

NT‐pro BNP: N‐terminal pro‐brain natriuretic peptide
 PESI: pulmonary embolism severity index
 RCT: randomised controlled trial