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Table 3 Quality assessment of trials of interventions for infections (HIV) in pregnancy

From: Effectiveness of interventions to screen and manage infections during pregnancy on reducing stillbirths: a review

Quality Assessment

Summary of Findings

    

Directness

No of events

No of studies (ref)

Design

Limitations

Consistency

Generalizability to population of interest

Generalizability to intervention of interest

Intervention

Control

Relative Risk (95% CI)

Any anti-retroviral use for HIV and stillbirth: MODERATE outcome specific quality

6

RCTs

none

Some heterogeneity from meta-analysis; 4 out of 8 data sets showing benefit

Yes

Yes

22

22

RR (fixed) = 0.93 (0.45 - 1.92)