Review Article
Is Chemoprophylaxis for Child Contacts of Drug-Resistant TB Patients Beneficial? A Systematic Review
Table 2
Quality of evidence and results from included studies.
| | Quality assessment | Number of patients | Effect | Quality | Importance | | Number of studies | Study design | Risk of bias | Inconsistency | Indirectness | Imprecision | Other considerations | Preventive therapy | No preventive therapy | Relative (95% CI) | Absolute (95% CI) |
| | Incidence of TB | | 2 | Observational studies | Not serious | Not serious | Not serious | Not serious | Strong association | 4/182 (2.2%) | 17/109 (15.6%) | RR 0.21 (0.07 to 0.63) | 123 fewer per 1,000 (from 58 fewer to 145 fewer) | ⨁⨁⨁◯ Moderate | |
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