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