Study	Reason for exclusion
Ahn 2018	Critical care setting
Barnes 2012	Exercise not part of the intervention
Braun 2019	Participants randomised after 72 hours of hospital admission
Brown 2006	No outcome data
Bruun 2020	Community setting
Buhl 2016	Exercise intervention started after discharge from hospital
Collard 1985	Non‐general medical population
Cumming 2008	Non‐general medical population
DRKS00011262	Participants randomised after 72 hours of hospital admission
Fleck 2012	Protocol, full manuscript identified
Fleiner 2017	Non‐general medical population
Gade 2019	Control group received additional exercise
Greening 2014	Non‐general medical population
Haines 2004	Inpatient rehabilitation setting
Haines 2007	Inpatient rehabilitation setting
Hamilton 2018	Abstract/letter to editor, full manuscript identified
Hamilton 2019	< 95% of the study participants were aged ≥ 65 years
Harris 1991	Exercise not part of the intervention
Hegerova 2015	Did not measure outcomes at time points of interest.
Heim 2017	Non‐general medical population
Hochstetter 2005	< 95% of the study participants were aged ≥ 65 years
José 2016	< 95% of the study participants were aged ≥ 65 years
JPRN‐UMIN000019551	Non‐general medical population
JPRN‐UMIN000030036	Non‐randomised study
Kim 2013	Inpatient rehabilitation setting
Kirk 2018	Protocol, full manuscript identified
Latham 2001	Inpatient rehabilitation setting
Lopez‐Lopez 2019	Non‐general medical population
Mallery 2003	Participants randomised after 72 hours of hospital admission
Martinez‐Velilla 2017	Abstract/letter to editor, full manuscript identified
McGowan 2018b	Abstract/letter to editor, full manuscript identified
Mills 2019	Abstract/letter to editor, full manuscript not identified
Mudge 2007	Abstract/letter to editor, full manuscript identified
Mudge 2019	Abstract/letter to editor, full manuscript not identified
Mundy 2003	< 95% of the study participants were aged ≥ 65 years
NCT00038155	Protocol, full manuscript identified
NCT01483456	Non‐randomised study
NCT02062541	Community setting
NCT03558841	Inpatient rehabilitation setting
NCT04565626	Protocol, < 95% of the study participants expected to be aged ≥ 65 years
Netz 1994	Inpatient rehabilitation setting
Neumeier 2017	< 95% of the study participants were aged ≥ 65 years
O'Shaughnessy 2019	Exercise not part of the intervention
Peel 2016	Inpatient rehabilitation setting
Peyrusqué 2021	Abstract/letter to editor, full manuscript not identified
Pires 2020	Inpatient rehabilitation setting
Pitkala 2006	Exercise not part of the intervention
Raymond 2017	Participants randomised after 72 hours of hospital admission
Rodrigues 2019	Non‐randomised study
Rubenstein 1984	Participants randomised after 72 hours of hospital admission
Sáez de Asteasu 2021b	Abstract/letter to editor, full manuscript identified
Said 2012	Inpatient rehabilitation setting
Saltvedt 2002	Participants randomised after 72 hours of hospital admission
Saltvedt 2004	Participants randomised after 72 hours of hospital admission
Saltvedt 2006	Participants randomised after 72 hours of hospital admission
Schwenk 2014	Inpatient rehabilitation setting
Seo 2019	Community setting
Siebens 2000	Non‐general medical population
Steadman 2003	Community setting
Steunenberg 2016	Non‐randomised study
Sullivan 2007	Community setting
Tibaek 2014	Inpatient rehabilitation setting
Timonen 2002	Exercise intervention started after discharge from hospital
Timonen 2006	Exercise intervention started after discharge from hospital
Treacy 2015a	Abstract/letter to editor, full manuscript identified
Treacy 2015b	Inpatient rehabilitation setting
Trombetti 2013	Inpatient rehabilitation setting
Vidan 2009	Non‐randomised study
Weatherall 2004	Inpatient rehabilitation setting
Yoo 2013	Exercise not part of the intervention