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(Continued)<br />

Efficacy: Total Failure<br />

(P. falciparum)<br />

Day 28 PCR unadjusted<br />

Vivax efficacy: P.<br />

vivax parasitaemia<br />

Transmission<br />

potential: Gametocyte<br />

carriage day<br />

14<br />

Harms: Serious adverse<br />

events (including<br />

deaths)<br />

Harms: Early vomiting<br />

26 per 1000 14 per 1000<br />

(3 to 64)<br />

RR 0.54<br />

(0.12 to 2.46)<br />

493<br />

(1)<br />

⊕<br />

very low 2,3,4,5,7<br />

- - - - Not reported<br />

- - - 505<br />

(1)<br />

- - - 505<br />

(1)<br />

⊕<br />

very low 2,3,4,5,7<br />

⊕<br />

very low 2,3,4,5,9<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 Please note that due to its longer half-life treatment failure with AS+MQ may be underestimated at this time-point.<br />

2 Faye 2003 SEN.<br />

3 Serious limitations: Allocation concealment was assessed as ’high risk of bias’ and no blinding is described.<br />

4 Serious indirectness: Only one trial from Senegal reported this outcome. Extrapolation of this result to other countries is likely to be<br />

unreliable.<br />

5 Children aged < one year and pregnant or lactating women were excluded.<br />

6 Very serious imprecision: <strong>The</strong>re were no PCR adjusted treatment failures in either group.<br />

7 Very serious imprecision: <strong>The</strong> 95% CI is wide including appreciable benefit and harm with each drug over the other.<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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