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Djimde 2004 MLI (Continued)<br />

• AS 4 mg/kg once daily <strong>for</strong> 3 days<br />

• Plus half a tablet of SP (500/25mg tablets) per 10 kg as a single dose<br />

All doses supervized<br />

Outcomes 1. ACPR at day 28, PCR adjusted and unadjusted<br />

2. Treatment outcome in non-falciparum species<br />

3. Gametocyte carriage during follow up<br />

4. Adverse events<br />

Not included in the review:<br />

1. Fever clearance<br />

2. Parasite clearance<br />

Notes Country: Mali<br />

Setting: A village<br />

Transmission: Hyperendemic with seasonal peaks<br />

Resistance: CQ and SP resistance<br />

Dates: Dec 2002 to Oct 2004<br />

Funding: Access to Medicines, Sanofi-Aventis and the International Atomic Energy<br />

Agency<br />

Risk of bias<br />

Item Authors’ judgement Description<br />

Adequate sequence generation? Unclear ’Enrolled patients were randomly assigned<br />

to treatment groups’. No further details.<br />

Allocation concealment? Unclear ’<strong>The</strong> randomisation list was concealed to<br />

clinicians’. No further details.<br />

Blinding?<br />

All outcomes<br />

Incomplete outcome data addressed?<br />

All outcomes<br />

Unclear Described as single blind, although details<br />

not given<br />

No In the day 28 efficacy analysis 13 patients<br />

in the AS+AQ group and 9 in the AS+SP<br />

group are unaccounted <strong>for</strong><br />

Free of selective reporting? Yes All WHO outcomes reported<br />

Free of other bias? No ’<strong>The</strong> study sponsor was involved in the protocol<br />

development and reporting of severe<br />

adverse events’<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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