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Bousema 2004 KEN (Continued)<br />

• SP 25/1.25 mg/kg as a single dose<br />

All doses supervized and given with a fatty meal<br />

Outcomes 1. Adequate clinical response at day 28, PCR adjusted and unadjusted (excluded<br />

from primary analysis)<br />

Not included in the review:<br />

1. Gametocytes carriage at days 0 and 7<br />

2. Assessment of infectiousness of participants<br />

Notes Country: Kenya<br />

Setting: Rural clinic<br />

Transmission: High and perennial<br />

Resistance: Not reported<br />

Dates: Oct to Dec in 2003 and 2004<br />

Funding: Foundation <strong>for</strong> the Advancement of Tropical Research, Netherlands Organization<br />

<strong>for</strong> Scientif Research, Ter Meulen Fund<br />

Risk of bias<br />

Item Authors’ judgement Description<br />

Adequate sequence generation? No Children were divided in age strata and randomized<br />

to different treatment regimens<br />

using Excel generated randomization tables.<br />

Serious flaws in randomization.<br />

Allocation concealment? No None described<br />

Blinding?<br />

All outcomes<br />

Incomplete outcome data addressed?<br />

All outcomes<br />

Yes ’Other than those administering the medication,<br />

all staff engaged in the trial were<br />

blinded to allocation’<br />

No Losses to follow up were different between<br />

groups with no losses in the AL group (0%<br />

AL6 vs 8.0% AS+SP vs 9.4% AQ+SP). This<br />

is likely to be related to the different inclusion<br />

criteria <strong>for</strong> AL6.<br />

Free of selective reporting? Yes <strong>The</strong> WHO recommends 42 days follow up<br />

in studies of AL6. Day 28 outcomes may<br />

underestimate treatment failure with AL6.<br />

Free of other bias? No Due to differing inclusion criteria <strong>for</strong> the 3<br />

arms children in the AL6 group were older,<br />

heavier and had higher Hb levels at baseline.<br />

This may improve outcome in this<br />

group and consequently the AL6 arm was<br />

excluded from this review.<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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