Table 5.

Effectiveness estimates among study cohort patients at Sadar District Hospital, Vaishali District, India (July 2007 to May 2008; N = 251)

Effectiveness estimates	N (%) [95% CI]
Intention-to-treat analysis
Cured	248 (98.8) [96.6–99.8]
Patients in analysis	251
Per protocol analysis 1*
Cured	250 (99.6) [97.8–99.9]
Patients in analysis	251
Per protocol analysis 2*
Cured	251 (100.0) [98.8–100.0]†
Patients in analysis	251
Intention-to-treat worst-case scenario analysis
Cured	204 (81.3) [75.9–85.6]
Patients in analysis	251

^*Per protocol analysis 1 considered only relapses and kala-azar–related deaths as failures. Per protocol analysis 2 considered a single death for an unknown reason to be unrelated to kala-azar.

^†One-sided confidence interval.