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Grande 2005 PER (Continued)<br />

Allocation concealment? Yes ’Sealed opaque envelopes were opened only<br />

after the final decision to recruit the patient<br />

had been made’<br />

Blinding?<br />

All outcomes<br />

Incomplete outcome data addressed?<br />

All outcomes<br />

No An open-label trial. No comment on blinding<br />

of laboratory staff.<br />

Yes Similar loss to follow up in both groups<br />

(8.7% DHA-P vs 5.9% AS+MQ)<br />

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

Free of other bias? Yes No other sources of bias identified<br />

Guthmann 2003 AGO<br />

Methods Trial design: An open label randomized controlled trial<br />

Follow up: Reassessed clinically and parasitologically on days 0, 3, 7, 14, 21, and 28.<br />

Gametocytes were measured at each visit. Haemoglobin was measured at days 0 and 28.<br />

Adverse event monitoring: None described<br />

Participants Number: 187 randomized into included treatment arms<br />

Inclusion criteria: Age 6 to 59 months, weight > 5 kg, axillary temp > 37.5 ºC or history<br />

of fever in the previous 24 hours, P. falciparum mono-infection 2000 to 100,000/µl,<br />

living within 1 hours walk of the clinic, in<strong>for</strong>med consent<br />

Exclusion criteria: Signs of severity or severe malaria, severe anaemia (Hb < 5 g/dl),<br />

severe malnutrition, any concomitant febrile condition with the potential to confound<br />

the study outcome, history of allergic reaction to the study drug, reported intake of a<br />

full course of antimalarials in the previous 7 days<br />

Interventions 1. Artesunate plus amodiaquine, loose <strong>combination</strong> (Arsumax: Sanofi-Aventis, Camoquin:<br />

Parke-Davis)<br />

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

• AQ 10 mg/kg/day <strong>for</strong> 3 days<br />

2. Artesunate plus sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, loose <strong>combination</strong> (Arsumax: Sanofi-<br />

Aventis, Fansidar: Roche)<br />

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

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

All doses supervized<br />

Outcomes 1. Failure at day 28 PCR adjusted<br />

2. Prevalence of anaemia at days 0 and 28<br />

3. Gametocyte carriage at day 28<br />

Notes Country: Angola<br />

Setting: Hospital outpatient dept., health centre, 3 health posts and 1 maternal and child<br />

health centre<br />

Transmission: Mesoendemic with stable and seasonal transmission with a peak from<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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