Bath 1997.

Methods	Single‐centre parallel randomised controlled trial Setting: 1 hospital in UK Sample size: not reported
Participants	Nineteen patients (8 male, 11 female); mean age: 77 years (11) Baseline disease: 13 Ischaemic stroke, six haemorrhagic stroke Inclusion criteria: stroke within two weeks of stroke onset Exclusion criteria: oro‐gastrointestinal disease concurrent severe illness, coagulopathy, pre‐morbid dependency, severe dementia, psychiatric illness
Interventions	PEG: details not available NGT: details not available
Outcomes	Primary outcomes Resumption of safe feeding at 12 weeks Weight loss < 5% at 6 weeks Discharge by 6 weeks Secondary outcomes Impairment Disability Handicap Quality of life Tube failures Chest infection Oropharyngeal delay time at 4 weeks
Notes	Follow‐up: three months Risks of bias was judged from a systematic review previously published by the author (Bath 2009) and by email contact with the author
Risk of bias
Bias	Authors' judgement	Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias)	Low risk	Computer‐generated by minimisation
Allocation concealment (selection bias)	Unclear risk	Not reported
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) All outcomes	High risk	Not possible for this type of intervention
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) All outcomes	Unclear risk	Not explicitly stated to be blinded by the study investigators
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes	Low risk	Intention‐to‐treat analysis
Selective reporting (reporting bias)	Low risk	Relevant outcomes were analysed
Other bias	High risk	Unpublished study