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(Continued)<br />

Efficacy: Total Failure<br />

Day 42 PCR<br />

unadjusted<br />

Vivax efficacy: P.<br />

vivax parasitaemia<br />

Day 42<br />

Transmission<br />

potential: Gametocyte<br />

carriage<br />

Harms: Serious adverse<br />

events (including<br />

deaths)<br />

Harms: Early vomiting<br />

380 per 1000 391 per 1000<br />

(281 to 551)<br />

596 per 1000 268 per 1000<br />

(191 to 387)<br />

RR 1.03<br />

(0.74 to 1.45)<br />

RR 0.45<br />

(0.32 to 0.65)<br />

215<br />

(1)<br />

194<br />

(1)<br />

- - - 215<br />

(1)<br />

⊕<br />

very low 1,2,3,4<br />

⊕⊕<br />

low 1,2,3,5<br />

- - - - Not reported<br />

- - - - Not reported<br />

*<strong>The</strong> assumed risk is the mean risk from the studies included in this review, calculated as the number of patients in the control<br />

groups with the event divided by the total number of patients in control groups. <strong>The</strong> corresponding risk (and its 95% confidence<br />

interval) is <strong>based</strong> on the assumed risk in the comparison group and the relative effect of the intervention (and its 95% CI).<br />

CI: confidence interval; RR: risk ratio<br />

GRADE Working Group grades of evidence<br />

High quality: Further research is very unlikely to change our confidence in the estimate of effect.<br />

Moderate quality: Further research is likely to have an important impact on our confidence in the estimate of effect and may change<br />

the estimate.<br />

Low quality: Further research is very likely to have an important impact on our confidence in the estimate of effect and is likely to<br />

change the estimate.<br />

Very low quality: We are very uncertain about the estimate.<br />

Footnotes<br />

1 Karunajeewa 2007 PNG.<br />

2 Serious limitations: No allocation concealment was described. Laboratory staff were blinded to treatment allocation.<br />

3 Serious indirectness: Data only available from one country.<br />

4 Very serious imprecision: <strong>The</strong> 95% CI includes appreciable benefit and harm of one drug over the other.<br />

5 No serious imprecision: Both limits of the 95% CI suggest appreciable benefit with DHA-P.<br />

6 Karunajeewa 2007 PNG reports that there were no differences in gametocyte carriage but no figures were given.<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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