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Koram 2003 GHA (Continued)<br />

Adequate sequence generation? Yes ’Computer generated random list <strong>based</strong> on<br />

a simple random selection procedure’<br />

Allocation concealment? No None described<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 />

No ’Patients who showed signs/symptoms of<br />

severe malaria, had serious adverse events<br />

or required blood transfusion were withdrawn<br />

from the study’. <strong>The</strong>se events after<br />

enrolment would represent treatment failure<br />

and should not be withdrawn.<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 />

under estimate treatment failure with AL6.<br />

Free of other bias? No Participants in the AL6 group were significantly<br />

older and had a higher Hb at baseline.<br />

This is due to differing inclusion criteria<br />

<strong>for</strong> the 2 groups and is likely to affect<br />

the result.<br />

Lefevre 1999 THA<br />

Methods Trial design: An open-label clinical and pharmacokinetic randomized controlled trial<br />

Follow up: Monitored 3 times daily until parasites and fever cleared. <strong>The</strong>n follow up at<br />

days 1, 2, 3, 7, 14, 21, and 28 <strong>for</strong> temp and malaria film.<br />

P. vivax during follow up was treated with CQ and primaquine and continued in follow<br />

up<br />

Adverse event monitoring: Assessed at each visit. ECG monitoring and laboratory tests<br />

(including FBC liver and renal function tests) at baseline and each day of follow up.<br />

Participants Number: 219 randomized<br />

Inclusion criteria: Age > 12 yrs, weight > 35 kg, microscopically confirmed P. falciparum,<br />

in<strong>for</strong>med consent<br />

Exclusion criteria: Signs or symptoms of severe malaria, heart disease or significant ECG<br />

abnormalities, psychiatric disorders, severe renal or hepatic impairment, history of drug<br />

hypersensitivity or allergy<br />

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

Novartis)<br />

• 4 tablets twice daily <strong>for</strong> 3 days<br />

2. Artesunate plus mefloquine, loose <strong>combination</strong> (Artesunate: Guilan, Lariam: Hoffman-La<br />

Roche)<br />

• AS 4 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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