Akhtar 1996.

Methods	Country where data collected: India Parallel‐group RCT Unit of randomisation: participant Unit of analysis: participant Duration: NR
Participants	Inclusion criteria: any age, TBSA >10% up to 40% Exclusion criteria: systemic diseases e.g. diabetes, or malignancy, vitamin deficient and immunosuppressed; electrical, chemical and radiation burns Participants: 100 patients from tertiary hospital Mean age (years): NR (comparable between groups) Male participants: NR (comparable between groups) Burn type: NR Burn degree NR (severity comparable between groups) Burn size (%TBSA): NR (severity comparable between groups, see inclusion criteria) Burn location: NR (comparable between groups)
Interventions	Intervention arm 1: Aloe vera cream every 3rd day. N = 50 Intervention arm 2: framycetin cream every 3rd day. N = 50 Cointerventions: NR
Outcomes	Wound healing (mean time to healing)
Notes	Reported in abstract form only Funding NR
Risk of bias
Bias	Authors' judgement	Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias)	Unclear risk	Quote: "Allocation to intervention was done by block randomization of 8 subjects." Comment: no information on how randomisation sequence was generated
Allocation concealment (selection bias)	Unclear risk	Quote: "Allocation to intervention was done by block randomization of 8 subjects." Comment: no information on whether allocation to treatment groups was concealed
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) All outcomes	Unclear risk	Quote "Blinded randomized controlled trial." Comment: not clear who was blinded
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes	Unclear risk	No specific quote Comment: reported in abstract only and unclear whether there was any or significant attrition
Selective reporting (reporting bias)	Unclear risk	No specific quote; reported in abstract only; unclear if all planned outcomes were reported
Other bias	Unclear risk	Abstract only, unclear if any additional sources of bias