Interventions to improve water quality for preventing diarrhoea: systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the effectiveness of interventions to improve the microbial quality of drinking water for preventing diarrhoea.

Design

Systematic review.

Data sources

Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group's trials register, CENTRAL, Medline, Embase, LILACS; hand searching; and correspondence with experts and relevant organisations.

Study selection

Randomised and quasirandomised controlled trials of interventions to improve the microbial quality of drinking water for preventing diarrhoea in adults and in children in settings with endemic disease.

Data extraction

Allocation concealment, blinding, losses to follow-up, type of intervention, outcome measures, and measures of effect. Pooled effect estimates were calculated within the appropriate subgroups.

SUBMITTER: Clasen T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1851994 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature