Study	Reason for exclusion
Adam 1994	Participants were patients who had a hip replacement and were at risk of DVT.
Cairols 2011	No compression used, pharmacological interventions compared
Chylarecki 1996	Participants were trauma patients.
Dennis 2013	Participants were stroke patients.
Enden 2009	Compares CDT with standard anticoagulation
Gonzalez‐Fajardo 2008	Compares different anticoagulants
Hull 2009	Compares different anticoagulants
ISRCTN81127756	Study stopped owing to poor recruitment. No further information
Junger 2006	All participants wore compression stockings. Mobilisation was compared with immobilisation.
Kahn 2003	Assessed compression stockings for acute leg symptoms and signs during exercise in patients with DVT. Almost 50% of the study population already had PTS when the intervention was applied. In the group without PTS, development of PTS was not assessed.
Kahn 2005	Compares different doses of warfarin
Kahn 2011	Compares exercise vs no exercise
Lewis 1976	Participants were not DVT patients.
Markevicius 2004	Comparing CDT vs standard anticoagulation
Moser 1976	Participants were not DVT patients.
NCT02148029	Compares exercise vs no exercise
Rahman 2009	All participants received stockings, and all groups received different kinds and dosages of anticoagulants. Occurrence of PTS was not assessed.
Ratiu 2009	Compares exercise vs no exercise
Romera 2005	Compares early immobilisation and stockings in patients with bed rest for incidence of PE. Occurrence of PTS was not assessed.
Schulman 2006	Comparing anticoagulant duration for treatment of VTE
Schwarz 1998	Compared mobilisation vs immobilisation
Vedantham 2013	Comparing catheter‐directed thrombolysis vs standard anticoagulation

CDT: catheter‐directed thrombolysis.
 DVT: deep vein thrombosis.
 PE: pulmonary embolism.
 PTS: post‐thrombotic embolism.
 VTE: venous thromboembolism.