| Methods |
Randomised controlled trial |
| Participants |
Children aged 1 month to 2 years presenting to an outpatients department in a teaching hospital |
| Interventions |
Supportive management, supportive management plus IV ampicillin, supportive management plus oral erythromycin |
| Outcomes |
Breathing difficulty, feeding difficulty, social smile, tachypnoea (rapid breathing), hypoxia, wheeze, rhonchi, crepitation, WBC, Hb, ESR, CRP, X‐ray, rate of recovery |
| Notes |
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| Risk of bias |
| Bias |
Authors' judgement |
Support for judgement |
| Random sequence generation (selection bias) |
High risk |
Odds and evens |
| Allocation concealment (selection bias) |
Unclear risk |
Not discussed |
| Blinding (performance bias and detection bias)
All outcomes |
Unclear risk |
Not specified |
| Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias)
All outcomes |
Unclear risk |
Not specified |
| Selective reporting (reporting bias) |
Unclear risk |
Unsure |
| Other bias |
Unclear risk |
Funding sources do not appear to be identified |
