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Table 2 GRADE evidence table for the comparison betalactam antibiotics vs. doxycycline for children with Lyme neuroborreliosis

From: Efficacy and safety of pharmacological treatments for Lyme neuroborreliosis in children: a systematic review

Quality assessment

№ of patients

Effect

Quality

№ of studies

Study design

Risk of bias

Inconsistency

Indirectness

Imprecision

Betalactam antibiotics

Doxycycline

Relative (95 % CI)

Neurological symptoms at last reported time point

3

observational studies

very seriousa

not serious

seriousb

seriousc

15/195 (7.7 %)

3/25 (12.0 %)

not pooled

VERY LOW

  1. abaseline confounding, selected patients, lack of blinding, interventions insufficiently described
  2. bheterogeneous interventions, interventions not clearly described
  3. csmall sample size, optimal information size not met