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Guthmann 2003 AGO (Continued)<br />

Risk of bias<br />

September to April<br />

Resistance: CQ and SP resistance<br />

Dates: March 2003 to July 2003<br />

Funding: Médecins sans Frontières<br />

Item Authors’ judgement Description<br />

Adequate sequence generation? Unclear ’Randomly allocated in blocks of 20’. Due<br />

to technical problems randomization only<br />

started after the first 30 patients had been<br />

enrolled.<br />

Allocation concealment? No ’Without a concealment procedure’<br />

Blinding?<br />

All outcomes<br />

Incomplete outcome data addressed?<br />

All outcomes<br />

No No comment on blinding. External quality<br />

control on a random sample of malaria<br />

films was conducted.<br />

No 3 times as many withdrawals in AS+AQ<br />

group vs AS+SP (12% vs 4%). Reasons <strong>for</strong><br />

this disparity are not given.<br />

Free of selective reporting? Yes Only PCR adjusted results given, PCR unadjusted<br />

is unpublished data<br />

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

Guthmann 2004 AGO<br />

Methods Trial design: A randomized controlled trial<br />

Follow up: Days 0, 1, 2, 3, 7, 14, 21, and 28, <strong>for</strong> a clinical assessment and malaria film.<br />

Haemoglobin and gametocyte measurement on days 0 and 28.<br />

Adverse event monitoring: Not described<br />

Participants Number: 137 randomized<br />

Inclusion criteria: Age 6 to 59 months, confirmed clinical P. falciparum malaria, in<strong>for</strong>med<br />

consent<br />

Exclusion criteria: As per WHO 2003 protocol<br />

Interventions 1. Artemether-lumefantrine, fixed dose <strong>combination</strong>, 20 mg/120 mg tablets (Coartem:<br />

Novartis)<br />

• Twice daily <strong>for</strong> 3 days as per manufacturers guidance<br />

2. 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 once daily <strong>for</strong> 3 days<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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