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. 2017 Jul 12;2017(7):CD011821. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD011821.pub2

Chen 2006.

Methods Country where data collected: China
Parallel‐group RCT
Unit of randomisation: participant
Unit of analysis: participant
Duration: NR (until healing)
Participants Inclusion criteria: second‐degree burn wounds (superficial or deep); in hospital within 0.5‐12 h
Exclusion criteria: NR
Participants: 191 hospital patients
Mean age (years): (35 ± 12) vs (30 ± 9) vs (32 ± 11)
Male participants: 42/65 vs 36/63 vs 35/63
Burn type: NR
Burn degree: superficial 31 vs 33 vs 32; deep 34 vs 30 vs 31
Burn size (%TBSA): superficial: 38.3 ± 18.1 vs 22.5 ± 10.2 vs 28.3 ± 8.6; deep 10.1 ± 2.2 vs 6.3 ± 3.2 vs 8.2 ± 1.6)
Burn location:NR
Interventions Intervention arm 1: silver nanoparticle dressing, changed every day (N = 65)
Intervention arm 2: 1% SSD cream, changed every day (N = 63)
Intervention arm 3: Vaseline gauze, changed every day (N = 63)
Cointerventions: wounds cleaned with 0. 5% iodophor
Outcomes Primary outcome: wound healing (mean time to wound healing)
Notes Article in Chinese, extracted and assessed for risk of bias by one review author, discussed with a second review author
Funding NR
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk Comment: a random component in the sequence generation process was not reported in detail
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Comment: it did not state how randomisation sequence was allocated
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk Comment: not mentioned
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk Comment: result section and tables show that all participant data were included in analysis
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Low risk Comment: protocol not obtained, based on paper only
Other bias Unclear risk Comment: The whole process of conducting this RCT was not clear