. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 17.

Published in final edited form as: Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2014 Oct 16;10:CD005430. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD005430.pub3

Characteristics of excluded studies [ordered by study ID].

Study	Reason for exclusion
Barequet 2001	Not relevant to bacterial keratitis
Buhren 2001	Non-comparative case report
Callegan 1994	Review article; no new randomized trial described
Cosar 2004	Not RCT and not relevant to bacterial keratitis
Dighiero 2005	Not RCT; amniotic membrane transplantation is not one of the interventions in the inclusion criteria
Goldberg 2002	Case report
Gris 2004	Case report
Hanada 2001	Not RCT; no clear mention of inclusion of bacterial keratitis
Hoffman 2003	Cohort study
Morlet 1999	Cross-sectional study
Nakajima 2001	Retrospective study
Shulman 1996	Inclusion criteria do not include bacterial keratitis
Vajpayee 1998	Retrospective study
Wilhelmus 2002	Review article; no new randomized trial described
Zegans 2006	Abstract only; no full length publication available

RCT: randomized controlled trial