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

Li 2006.

Methods Country where data collected: China
Parallel‐group RCT
Unit of randomisation: participant
Unit of analysis: participant
Duration: NR
Participants Inclusion criteria: NR
Exclusion criteria: NR
Participants: 277 hospital patients with superficial, deep or residual burn wounds
Mean age (years): 30.3 (range 5‐74)
Male participants: NR
Burn type: NR
Burn degree: superficial 46 vs 16; deep 89 vs 32; residual 68 vs 26
Burn size (%TBSA): 3.4 ± 0.6 (range 0.1‐6.0)
Burn location: trunk and limbs
Interventions Intervention arm 1: carbon fibre dressing changed daily
Intervention arm 2: 0.5% iodine gauze changed daily
Cointerventions: NR
Outcomes Primary outcome: wound healing
Secondary outcome: adverse events
Notes Funding NR
Article in Chinese, extracted and assessed for risk of bias by one review author, discussed with a second review author
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 Low risk Comment: not mentioned
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk Comment: results section and tables show that all participant data were included in analysis
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Unclear risk Comment: protocol not obtained, based on paper only
Other bias Unclear risk The whole process of conducting this RCT was not clear