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Lefevre 1999 THA (Continued)<br />

• MQ 15 mg/kg on day 1 and 10 mg/kg on day 2<br />

All doses supervized<br />

Outcomes 1. Cure rate at day 28 PCR adjusted and unadjusted<br />

2. P. vivax parasitaemia during follow up<br />

3. Gametocyte development<br />

4. Mean Hb at days 0 and 28<br />

5. Adverse events<br />

Not included in the review:<br />

1. Fever clearance time<br />

2. Parasite clearance time<br />

Notes Country: Thailand<br />

Setting: Bangkok Hospital <strong>for</strong> Tropical Diseases<br />

Transmission: Low transmission<br />

Resistance: Multiple-drug resistance<br />

Dates: Sept 1998 to Jan 1999<br />

Funding: Novartis Pharma AG<br />

Risk of bias<br />

Item Authors’ judgement Description<br />

Adequate sequence generation? Unclear ’Randomized in a ratio of 3:1’. No further<br />

details given.<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 />

Yes Losses to follow up were low and proportional<br />

in the 2 groups (5.4% AL6 vs 3.6%<br />

AS+MQ)<br />

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

up in studies of AL6 and 63 days with<br />

AS+MQ. Day 28 outcomes may overestimate<br />

the efficacy of AL6 and AS+MQ.<br />

Free of other bias? No It is stated that participants whose condition<br />

deteriorated were to be excluded from<br />

the trial. <strong>The</strong>re is no flow chart so it is<br />

unclear how many participants this represented,<br />

and whether these should have been<br />

classified as early treatment failures.<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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