| Study characteristics |
| Methods |
RCT |
| Participants |
People with stroke up to 2 months after stroke
Appropriate for rehabilitation centre |
| Interventions |
Mixed rehabilitation team working in rehabilitation centre or attending participants in other wards (n = 42) vs programme of care in general ward (n = 40) that had some specialist nursing input
Organised care provided for months if required |
| Outcomes |
Functional status and place of residence at end of follow‐up (approximately 1 year) |
| Notes |
No deaths reported
Minor anomaly in published data table
Not clear how many participants were managed in a peripatetic way |
| Risk of bias |
| Bias |
Authors' judgement |
Support for judgement |
| Random sequence generation (selection bias) |
Low risk |
Randomly drawn unmarked envelopes |
| Allocation concealment (selection bias) |
Unclear risk |
Allocation concealment not reported |
| Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias)
All outcomes |
Unclear risk |
Unclear |
| Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias)
All outcomes |
Unclear risk |
Unclear |
| Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias)
All outcomes |
Unclear risk |
Unclear |
| Selective reporting (reporting bias) |
Unclear risk |
Unclear |
