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Yeka 2004 UGA (Continued)<br />

Risk of bias<br />

Dates: Nov 2002 to May 2004<br />

Funding: CDC/Association of Schools of Public Health co-operative agreement, Malaria<br />

Surveillance and Control in Uganda, DfID<br />

Item Authors’ judgement Description<br />

Adequate sequence generation? Yes ’Randomisation codes were computer generated’<br />

Allocation concealment? No Not described<br />

Blinding?<br />

All outcomes<br />

Incomplete outcome data addressed?<br />

All outcomes<br />

Yes ’All other study personnel (except study<br />

nurse) were blinded to the treatment assignments<br />

and participants were not in<strong>for</strong>med<br />

of their treatment regimen’<br />

Yes Low losses to follow up in both groups<br />

(3.4% AS+AQ vs 4.0% AQ+SP). High<br />

transmission with very high reinfection<br />

rates results in very high exclusions from<br />

primary analysis.<br />

Free of selective reporting? Yes Outcomes only presented as percentages.<br />

Additional data gained from authors.<br />

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

Yeka 2007 UGA<br />

Methods Trial design: A single blind randomized controlled trial<br />

Follow up: Standardized history, physical exam, and malaria film on days 0, 1, 2, 3, 7,<br />

14, 21, 28, 35, and 42 and any other day they were unwell. Haemoglobin on days 0 and<br />

42 or the day of failure. Anaemia was treated with ferrous sulphate and antihelminthics<br />

according to IMCI guidelines.<br />

Adverse event monitoring: Assessed at each visit including neurological examination.<br />

Adverse events described as any untoward medical occurrence.<br />

Participants Number: 461 randomized<br />

Inclusion criteria: Age 6 months to 10 yrs, weight > 5 kg, axillary temp > 37.5 ºC or<br />

history of fever in the previous 24 hours, P. falciparum mono-infection 2000 to 200,000/<br />

µl, in<strong>for</strong>med consent<br />

Exclusion criteria: Danger signs or evidence of severe malaria, concomitant febrile illness,<br />

history of serious side effects to the study meds<br />

Interventions 1. Dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine, fixed dose <strong>combination</strong>, 40 mg/320 mg tablets (<br />

Duocotexin: HolleyPharm)<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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