Table 1 Quality assessment of trials of antibiotics for the treatment of cholera
From: Antibiotics for the treatment of Cholera, Shigella and Cryptosporidiumin children
Quality Assessment | Summary of Findings | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | Directness | No of events | Â | |||||
No of studies | Design | Limitations | Consistency | Generalizability to population of interest | Generalizability to intervention of interest | Intervention | Control | Relative Risk (95% CI) |
Clinical Failure (Antibiotics vs. Placebo): Low Outcome Quality | ||||||||
01[23] | RCT | Only a single study | Â | In developing country | Hospital based | 8 | 20 | 0.37 (0.19, 0.71) |
Bacteriological Failure (Antibiotics vs. Placebo): Low Outcome Quality | ||||||||
01[23] | RCT | Only a single study | Â | In developing country | Hospital based | 6 | 22 | 0.25 (0.12, 0.53) |