Vitamin D as an Adjunctive Treatment to Standard Drugs in Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients: An Evidence-Based Case Report

Table 2

Critical appraisal of RCTs using the CEBM tool by the University of Oxford.

Author	No. of Participants	Level of Evidence	Internal Validity					Importance
			Randomisation	Baseline Similarity	Equally Treated	Intention to Treat	Blinding	RR	ARR ()	RRR ()	NNT	95 CI
Afzal et al. (2018) [12]	120	2	+	+	+	+	-	1.11	10.0	11.3	10	(1.05, 1.26)
Daley et al. (2015) [13]	247	2	+	+	+	+	+	1.02	12.0	17.4	83	(0.86, 1.18)
Ganmaa et al. (2017) [14]	390	2	+	+	+	+	+	1.07	49.4	6.7	20	(0.96, 1.18)
Martineau et al. (2011) [15]	108	2	+	+	+	+	+	0.98	15.1	18.8	66	(0.79, 1.17)
Mily et al. (2015) [16]	127	2	+	+	+	+	+	1.15	94.7	15.4	11	(0.9, 1.4)
Nursyam EW (2006) [17]	67	2	+	+	+	+	+	1.03	3.0	3.1	34	(0.9, 1.1)
Ralph et al. (2013) [18]	79	2	+	-	+	+	+	0.99	0.4	0.7	222	(0.64, 1.34)
Tukvadze et al. (2015) [19]	199	2	+	+	+	+	+	1.00	0.2	0.2	660	(0.88, 1.12)

Internal validity indicated by + stated clearly in the article; - not being done; ? not stated clearly
Importance was calculated based on the SCR at the 8th week of treatment.