Table 1.

Characteristics of Studies included in validation analysis

Country	Study Area	Years	Study Design	Intervention	Relative Risk cited by the studies (95% CI)
The Gambia [9]	The Gambia	1991-92	Community randomized control trial	ITNs	0.95a (0.71 – 1.28) 0.55b (0.30 – 1.01)
Burkina Faso [10]	Oubritenga	1994-96	Community randomized control trial	Insecticide treated curtains	0.85c (0.70 – 1.04)
Tanzania [11]	Kilombero and Ulanga	1997-99	Observational	ITNs	0.84d (0.70 – 1.00)
Kenya [12]	Bondo, Greater Kisii, Kwale and Makueni	2004-06	Observational	ITNs	0.58e (0.35 – 0.98)

a: Measured all-cause mortality in children aged 1-2 years comparing intervention to controls

b: Measured all-cause mortality in children aged 3-4 years comparing intervention to controls

c: Measured all-cause mortality in children aged 6-59 months comparing intervention to controls

d: Measured all-cause mortality in children aged 0-5 years comparing 1999 to 1997

e: Measured all-cause mortality in children aged 1-59 months comparing exposed to unexposed

CI: Confidence interval