Table 1:

Citation Design	Country Setting	Inclusion criteria	Sample size	Intervention
(1) MASCOT pneumonia study group et al Double blinded multicentre RCT	Pakistan Multicentre hospitals	Patients <5 years (2-59 months) Male/female, diagnosed with non-severe pneumonia according to the WHO criteria^5/35. No patients with asthma/bronchitis or severe disease	2000	15mg/kg oral amoxicillin for 3 days. Half children got medicine for next 2 days and other half got placebo.
(2) ISCAP study group et al Double blinded multicentre RCT	India Multicentre hospitals	Patients <5 years (2-59 months) Male/female, diagnosed with non-severe pneumonia according to the WHO criteria^5/35. No patients with asthma/bronchitis or severe disease.	2188	Oral amoxicillin 31-54mg/kg/day in three divided doses for 3 days. Half children got medicine for next 2 days and other half got placebo.

MASCOT: multicentre amoxicillin short course therapy

RCT: randomized controlled trial