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Mens 2007 KEN (Continued)<br />

Risk of bias<br />

Dates: Apr 2007 to July 2007<br />

Funding: <strong>The</strong> Knowledge and Innovation Fund, Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen/<br />

Royal Tropical Institute. DHA-P provided free of charge by Sigma-Tau.<br />

Item Authors’ judgement Description<br />

Adequate sequence generation? Yes ’A computer generated randomisation list’<br />

Allocation concealment? No None described<br />

Blinding?<br />

All outcomes<br />

Incomplete outcome data addressed?<br />

All outcomes<br />

No Microscopists were blinded to treatment allocation.<br />

No other blinding described.<br />

Yes Low losses to follow up in both groups<br />

(8.2% DHA-P vs 8.2% AL6)<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 />

underestimate treatment failure with AL6<br />

and DHA-P.<br />

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

Mukhtar 2005 SDN<br />

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

Follow up: On days 0, 1, 2, 3, 7, 14, 21, and 28. A malaria film taken at each visit<br />

Adverse event monitoring: None described<br />

Participants Number: 160 randomized<br />

Inclusion criteria: All age groups, as per WHO protocol 2003<br />

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

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

Novartis)<br />

• Dosing details not given<br />

2. Artesunate plus sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, loose <strong>combination</strong><br />

• Dosing details not given<br />

Only first dose of each day was supervized<br />

Outcomes 1. ACPR at day 28, PCR adjusted and unadjusted<br />

Notes Country: Sudan<br />

Setting: 3 villages in eastern Sudan<br />

Transmission: Low endemicity<br />

Resistance: CQ and SP resistance<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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