Table 1.
Major outcomes for wound healing and infection for superficial and partial thickness burns
| Outcome | Number | Outcome | Outcome | Relative | NNT |
| of | achieved | achieved | benefit | (95% | |
| trials | with | with | (95% CI) | CI) | |
| honey | control | ||||
| (%) | (%) | ||||
| 7-day | 4 | 97/167 | 29/151 | 3.0 (2.2 to | 2.6 (2.1 |
| wound | (58%) | (19%) | 4.3) | to 3.4) | |
| healing | |||||
| 2 | 43/90 | 8/74 | 4.1 (2.1 to | 2.7 (2.0 | |
| (48%) | (11%) | 8.2) | to 4.1) | ||
| 21-day | 4 | 165/167 | 113/151 | 1.3 (1.2 to | 4.2 (3.3 |
| wound | (99%) | (75%) | 1.4) | to 6.0) | |
| healing | |||||
| 2 | 90/90 | 70/74 | 1.05 (0.99 to | 21 (10 to | |
| (100%) | (95%) | 1.1) | no | ||
| benefit) | |||||
| 7-day | 4 | 114/134 | 37/124 | 2.7 (2.0 to | 1.8 (1.5 |
| infections | (85%) | (30%) | 3.5) | to 2.2) | |
| 2 | 60/68 | 18/61 | 2.6 (1.8 to | 1.7 (1.4 | |
| (88%) | (30%) | 3.7) | to 2.3) |
Trials included were 16-18, 20 for all four comparisons with honey, and 17 and 18 for comparisons with treatments without biological plausibility