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. 2010 Nov 10;2010(11):CD005197. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD005197.pub3

Corapcioglu 2006.

Methods RCT
Open
2004‐2005
Participants Number: 28 patients (50 episodes)
 Age: med 8.4 ± SD 5.2
Interventions piperacillin‐tazobactam 80+10mg/kgX4
versus
cefepime 50mg/kgX3
Outcomes Infection‐related mortality (at least 7 days after discontinuation of treatment)
Clinical failure, fever duration
Drug modifications
Adverse events
Notes Turkey
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Adequate sequence generation? Unclear risk Consecutive randomization
Allocation concealment? Unclear risk No description
Blinding? 
 All outcomes High risk Blinding not used
Incomplete outcome data addressed? 
 All‐cause mortality Unclear risk All‐cause mortality not assessed
Incomplete outcome data addressed? 
 Treatment failure Low risk  
Free of other bias? High risk Unit of randomization = episodes; patients to episodes ratio 0.56