Table 1

Baseline characteristics

	Intervention	Control	p Value*
Questions	n=62	n=62
Treatment intervention	44	46	0.6
Answered with strong recommendation	22	22	1
Answer based on moderate or high quality of evidence	21	15	0.2
Strong recommendation based on very low or low quality of evidence	7	12	0.2
Patient who motivated the question	n=60	n=60
Age† (mean, SD)	64 (17.5)	63.3 (20.4)	0.8
Female (n, %)	32	35	0.5
Severity of the condition that motivated the hospitalisation as subjectively defined by the investigators
High	20	19	0.8
Low/moderate	40	41	0.8
Charlson comorbidity index	2.8 (2.4)	2.2 (2.4)	0.1
Five most frequent diagnoses
Cancer complication	6	5	1
Venous thromboembolic disease	3	6	0.4
Stroke	5	3	0.7
Gastrointestinal haemorrhage	2	5	0.4
Pneumonia	4	0	0.6

*χ².
†Range 18–99.