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(Continued)<br />

Sensitivity analysis<br />

1 d<br />

Sensitivity analysis<br />

2 e<br />

Sensitivity analysis<br />

3 f<br />

Sensitivity analysis<br />

4 g<br />

Footnotes<br />

As ’Primary analysis’<br />

except: missing or<br />

indeterminate PCR<br />

As ’Sensitivity analysis<br />

1’ except: new<br />

infections<br />

As ’Sensitivity analysis<br />

2’ except: exclusions<br />

after enrolment<br />

As ’Sensitivity analysis<br />

2’ except: exclusions<br />

after enrolment<br />

- - Included as failures Included<br />

- - Included as successes Included<br />

Included as failures Included Included as failures Included<br />

Included as<br />

successes<br />

Included Included as successes Included<br />

a Note: participants who were found to not satisfy the inclusion criteria after randomization are removed from all calculations.<br />

b PCR: polymerase chain reaction.<br />

c ’Excluded’ means removed from the calculation.<br />

d To re-classify all indeterminate or missing PCR results as treatment failures in the PCR-adjusted analysis.<br />

e To re-classify all PCR-confirmed new infections as treatment successes in the PCR-adjusted analysis. (This analysis may overestimate<br />

efficacy as PCR is not wholly reliable and some recrudescences may be falsely classified as new infections. Also some participants may<br />

have gone on to develop a recrudescence after the new infection.)<br />

f To re-classify all exclusions after enrolment (losses to follow up, withdrawn consent, other antimalarial use, or failure to complete<br />

treatment) as treatment failures. For PCR-unadjusted total failure this represents a true worse-case scenario.<br />

g To re-classify all exclusions after enrolment (losses to follow up, withdrawn consent, other antimalarial use, or failure to complete<br />

treatment) as treatment successes.<br />

Appendix 4. Adverse event tables<br />

Dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine vs Artesunate plus mefloquine<br />

Study ID Adverse event monitoring Blinding Summary of adverse event findings<br />

Ashley 2003a THA<br />

(134 participants)<br />

Inpatient monitoring until day<br />

28<br />

FBC, U&E, LFT on days 0 and<br />

7<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 />

Open label SAE: No serious adverse events observed<br />

Biochemical: No evidence of toxicity observed<br />

Other: No differences between the groups reported<br />

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