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

Uygun 2009.

Methods Quasi‐randomized trial
Open
2005‐2006
Participants Number: 69 patients (127 episodes)
Age: median 4.2 range (0.3‐18)
Interventions piperacillin‐tazobactam 80+10mg/kgX4
vs
cefepime 50mg/kgX3
Outcomes All‐cause and infection‐related mortality (at end of hospital stay)
Clinical and microbiological failure, fever duration and hospital stay
Drug modifications
Adverse events
Notes Turkey
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Adequate sequence generation? High risk Alternation
Allocation concealment? High risk  
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 0.54