Hawes 2013.

Methods	Randomised trial
Participants	61 participants (intervention 24; control 37) Academic medical centre USA Year of study: October 2009 to April 2011
Interventions	Intervention group received a care transitions clinic visit with a clinical pharmacist 72 hours post‐discharge. The visit included medication history, identifying and resolving medication discrepancies, creating a current medication list and counselling on medication use. Discrepancies between the Best Possible Medication Discharge List (BPMDL) and the discharge summary were identified and characterised.
Outcomes	Number of re‐hospitalisations
Notes	Funding source: Funding from the American College of Clinical Pharmacy Ambulatory Care Practice and Research Network was used to provide compensation in the form of a $15 gift card from a large retail store to subjects for study participation. Conflict of interest: None stated
Risk of bias
Bias	Authors' judgement	Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias)	Low risk	During the first year of the study, 30 patients were enrolled and a random number generator was used for randomisation. Because of unequal allocation of patients to the study arms, block randomisation with a block size of 4 was used for the second year of the study, during which 31 patients were enrolled.
Allocation concealment (selection bias)	Unclear risk	Insufficient Information
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) All Outcomes/Outcome 1	High risk	Potential for bias (non‐blinded)
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) All Outcomes/Outcome 1	Low risk	Seems unlikely. Rehospitalisation
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes	Low risk	All participants completed the trial.
Selective reporting (reporting bias)	Low risk	All reported
Other bias	Unclear risk	Baseline data not shown in full