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(Continued)<br />

Efficacy: Total Failure<br />

(P. falciparum)<br />

Day 28 PCR adjusted<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 />

19 per 1000 31 per 1000<br />

(18 to 55)<br />

RR 1.65<br />

(0.95 to 2.87)<br />

1729<br />

(8)<br />

- - - 2617<br />

(5)<br />

⊕⊕⊕<br />

moderate 1,2,3,4,5,6<br />

⊕<br />

very low 2,5,7,8,9<br />

- - - - Not reported 10<br />

- - - 718<br />

(2)<br />

13 per 1000 14 per 1000<br />

(8 to 27)<br />

83 per 1000 72 per 1000<br />

(49 to 109)<br />

RR 1.11<br />

(0.59 to 2.08)<br />

RR 0.87<br />

(0.59 to 1.31)<br />

2617<br />

(5)<br />

1097<br />

(5)<br />

⊕<br />

very low 11,12,13,14<br />

⊕⊕<br />

low 3,4,5,15<br />

⊕<br />

very low 4,15,16<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 long half-life PCR adjusted treatment failure with AL6 may be underestimated at this time point.<br />

2 Adjei 2006 GHA, Bukirwa 2005 UGA, Dorsey 2006 UGA, Falade 2005 NGA, Faye 2003 SEN, Guthmann 2004 AGO, Kobbe 2007<br />

GHA and Owusu-Agyei 2006 GHA (and Mutabingwa 2004 TZA <strong>for</strong> PCR unadjusted only).<br />

3 No serious limitations: Allocation concealment was assessed as ’low risk of bias’ in four trials. Sensitivity analysis removing the trials<br />

with inadequate allocation concealment did not substantially alter the result.<br />

4 No serious inconsistency: Heterogeneity was low.<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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