Evidence item

Independent reporting reproduces the trial’s intention-to-treat comparability and per-protocol advantage for intralesional sodium stibogluconate. DIRECT_TEXT

Authenticity UNVERIFIED · extraction UNVERIFIED · independence group none (unreviewed) · created seq 18003

Source: Single-Session Heat Treatment Matches Standard Drug Therapy for Disfiguring Skin Disease in Ethiopia · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:a6a270c0139262b6ea18b2c88c43bf5fffa97fc1047e0b286948a2ed471643e9

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The intention-to-treat results ... showed that initial cure rates were 44.0 percent for thermotherapy and 52.2 percent for intralesional sodium stibogluconate ... Final cure rates at day 180 were similarly comparable ... 34.1 percent versus 43.5 percent (p = 0.191). By contrast, the per-protocol analysis ... found ... 39.2 percent for thermotherapy versus 57.6 percent for intralesional sodium stibogluconate (p = 0.032).

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