Sartain 2001.

Methods	Randomised controlled trial Sample size calculation Intention‐to‐treat analysis conducted
Participants	399 children with acute paediatric illness (breathing difficulty, diarrhoea and vomiting or fever) Median age 13 to 15 months (range 6 weeks to 12 years) 240 boys (60%), 159 girls (40%) 100% follow‐up
Interventions	'Hospital at Home' vs usual inpatient paediatric care
Outcomes	Readmissions within 90 days of discharge Length of stay Qualitative assessment of parental and patient satisfaction Cost effectiveness of both types of care Data collected over 17 months
Notes
Risk of bias
Bias	Authors' judgement	Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias)	Low risk	Quote: "Patients were randomised using a sealed numbered and opaque envelope technique."
Allocation concealment (selection bias)	Low risk	As above
Blinding (performance bias and detection bias) All outcomes	High risk	Comment: It is unlikely that participants and personnel were blinded to intervention measures of "hospital at home care" vs "conventional hospital care" in this study.
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) All outcomes	High risk	As above
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) All outcomes	Unclear risk	Comment: The independent clinician verified the diagnoses for all participants readmitted but it is unclear whether all study data were assessed by independent researchers.
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes	High risk	Comment: The qualitative data collection included a purposive sample of 40 families which is 1/10th of the total study population.
Selective reporting (reporting bias)	Low risk	Comment: outcome data were presented for all outcomes reported as measured.
Other bias	Low risk	Comment: none was identified.