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Van den Broek 2003a BGD (Continued)<br />

Allocation concealment? No ’Treatment allocation was done by drawing<br />

a card from a box containing three types of<br />

cards coding <strong>for</strong> treatments’<br />

Blinding?<br />

All outcomes<br />

Incomplete outcome data addressed?<br />

All outcomes<br />

No An open label trial. No comment on blinding<br />

of laboratory staff. 10% of slides were<br />

cross-checked.<br />

Yes Low losses to follow up (1.6% AL6 vs 5.8%<br />

AS+MQ)<br />

Free of selective reporting? Yes <strong>The</strong> WHO recommends 63 days follow up<br />

in studies of AS+MQ. Day 42 outcomes<br />

may underestimate treatment failure with<br />

AS+MQ.<br />

Free of other bias? Yes No other sources of bias identified<br />

Van den Broek 2004 ZAR<br />

Methods Trial design: A 3-arm, open label randomized controlled trial<br />

Follow up: Clinical assessment and malaria film on days 0, 1, 2, 3, 7, 14, 21, and 28.<br />

Haemoglobin measured at days 0, 14, and 28<br />

Adverse event monitoring: Possible side effects as passively reported to the examiner were<br />

recorded at each visit<br />

Participants Number: 298 randomized<br />

Inclusion criteria: Age 6 to 59 months, weight > 5 kg <strong>for</strong> AS+AQ and AS+SP groups and<br />

> 10 kg <strong>for</strong> AL6, fever > 37.5 ºC or history of fever in the previous 24 hrs, P. falciparum<br />

mono-infection 2000 to 200,000/µl, lives within 2 hours walking distance, in<strong>for</strong>med<br />

consent<br />

Exclusion criteria: Signs of severe or complicated malaria, any danger sign, a serious<br />

concomitant illness, malnutrition, known hypersensitivity to the study drugs<br />

Interventions 1. Artemether-lumefantrine, fixed dose <strong>combination</strong>, 20 mg/120 mg tablets (Coartem:<br />

Novartis)<br />

• Twice daily <strong>for</strong> 3 days, weight <strong>based</strong> as per manufacturers guidance<br />

• Given with fatty food or a glass of milk<br />

2. Artesunate plus amodiaquine, loose <strong>combination</strong> (Arsumax: Sanofi-Aventis, Camoquin:<br />

Parke-Davis)<br />

• AS 4 mg/kg once daily <strong>for</strong> 3 days<br />

• AQ 10 mg/kg once daily <strong>for</strong> 3 days<br />

3. Artesunate plus sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine, loose <strong>combination</strong> (Arsumax: Sanofi-<br />

Aventis, Fansidar: La Roche)<br />

• AS 4 mg/kg once daily <strong>for</strong> 3 days<br />

• SP 25/1.25 mg/kg on day 1<br />

All doses supervized<br />

<strong>Artemisinin</strong>-<strong>based</strong> <strong>combination</strong> <strong>therapy</strong> <strong>for</strong> treating uncomplicated malaria (Review)<br />

Copyright © 2009 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Cochrane</strong> Collaboration. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.<br />

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