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(Continued)<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 timepoint.<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 < 1 year and pregnant or lactating women were excluded.<br />

6 Very serious imprecision: No PCR adjusted treatment failures were recorded in either treatment 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 />

8 No serious imprecision: Both limits of the 95% CI imply appreciable benefit with AS+MQ. At day 14 there were no participants with<br />

detectable gametocytes in either group.<br />

9 Very serious imprecision: No serious adverse events were recorded in this trial. A trial of this size would be unlikely to detect rare but<br />

important adverse events.<br />

Is Artemether-lumefantrine superior to Artesunate plus amodiaquine <strong>for</strong> treating uncomplicated malaria?<br />

Patient or population: Patients with uncomplicated malaria<br />

Settings: Africa<br />

Intervention: Artemether-lumefantrine<br />

Comparison: Artesunate plus amodiaquine<br />

Outcomes Illustrative comparative risks* (95% CI) Relative effect<br />

(95% CI)<br />

Efficacy: Total Failure<br />

(P. falciparum)<br />

Day 28 PCR adjusted<br />

Assumed risk Corresponding<br />

risk<br />

Artesunate plus<br />

amodiaquine<br />

Artemetherlumefantrine<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 />

No of participants<br />

(studies)<br />

Quality of the evidence<br />

(GRADE)<br />

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