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Mayxay 2003 LAO (Continued)<br />

1. Fever clearance time<br />

2. Parasite clearance time<br />

Notes Country: Lao People’s Democratic Republic<br />

Setting: District clinic<br />

Transmission: Not stated<br />

Resistance: CQ and SP resistance<br />

Dates: June to Oct in 2002 and 2003<br />

Funding: Wellcome Trust of Great Britain<br />

Risk of bias<br />

Item Authors’ judgement Description<br />

Adequate sequence generation? Unclear ’Randomized in blocks of 15’. No further<br />

details given.<br />

Allocation concealment? Yes ’<strong>The</strong> treatment choice was kept in a sealed<br />

opaque envelope that was opened only after<br />

the decision to recruit 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 Low losses to follow up in both groups<br />

(2.7% AL6 vs 1.8% AS+MQ)<br />

Free of selective reporting? Yes <strong>The</strong> WHO recommends 63 days follow up<br />

in studies of AS+MQ. Day 42 outcomes<br />

may underestimate treatment failure with<br />

AS+MQ.<br />

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

Mayxay 2004 LAO<br />

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

Follow up: Temperature was measured every 6 hours and patient reviewed daily until<br />

fever and parasites cleared then weekly until day 42 or anytime they felt unwell. At each<br />

visit a malaria film and haematocrit measurement was taken.<br />

Adverse event monitoring: Potential adverse events were recorded at each visit<br />

Participants Number: 220 randomized<br />

Inclusion criteria: Age > 1 year, axillary temp > 37.5 ºC or history of fever in the previous<br />

3 days, P. falciparum mono-infection 1000 to 200,00/µl, were likely to stay in hospital<br />

until parasite clearance and complete 42 days follow up, in<strong>for</strong>med consent<br />

Exclusion criteria: Pregnancy or lactation, signs of severe malaria, antimalarials in the<br />

previous 3 days, contraindications to the study drugs<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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