| Methods |
RCT
Open
1998‐1998 |
| Participants |
Number: 33 patients (63 episodes)
Age: med 7, range 1m‐14y |
| Interventions |
ceftazidime 33mg/kgX3 versus
cefepime 50mg/kgX3 |
| Outcomes |
Overall and infection‐related mortality ‐ at end of treatment
Clinical failure
Drug modifications
Adverse events |
| Notes |
Turkey |
| Risk of bias |
| Bias |
Authors' judgement |
Support for judgement |
| Adequate sequence generation? |
Low risk |
Computer generated sequence |
| Allocation concealment? |
Low risk |
Central in statistics department |
| Blinding?
All outcomes |
High risk |
Blinding not used |
| Incomplete outcome data addressed?
All‐cause mortality |
Low risk |
|
| Incomplete outcome data addressed?
Treatment failure |
Low risk |
|
| Free of other bias? |
High risk |
Unit of randomization = episodes; patients to episodes ratio 0.52 |
