10. Dietary advice compared with oral nutritional supplements: differences in baseline characteristics.

Study	Differences at baseline	Risk of bias judgement
Gray‐Donald 1995	Appetite was better in the advice group than in the supplements group.	Unclear risk
Hernandez 2014	SIgnificantly higher total serum protein and creatinine in control group.	Unclear risk
Parsons 2016	Visual analogue score in EQ5D higher in supplement group.	Unclear risk
Stow 2015	Control group (food‐based) were heavier, had higher energy, protein and fluid intake as well as higher VAS score. This study also has potential sources of bias related to being cluster randomised.	High risk