| Methods |
RCT |
| Participants |
Children 6 months to 12 years old in an ambulatory unit in Costa Rica |
| Interventions |
Azithromycin 10 mg/kg once daily for 3 days
versus
amoxil‐clavulanate 40 mg/kg/day 3 times daily for 10 days |
| Outcomes |
Absence or improvement of signs and symptoms at 11 to 13 days, 28 to 30 days and 55 to 60 days after study entry |
| Notes |
— |
| Risk of bias |
| Bias |
Authors' judgement |
Support for judgement |
| Random sequence generation (selection bias) |
Low risk |
|
| Allocation concealment (selection bias) |
Low risk |
|
| Blinding (performance bias and detection bias)
Treatment failure at 1 month or less |
High risk |
|
| Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias)
Treatment failure at 1 month or less |
Low risk |
|
| Other bias |
Low risk |
Industry funding |
