| Study | Reason for exclusion |
|---|---|
| Afilalo 1992 | Ineligible intervention: antiseptic combined with SSD |
| Ang 2002 | Ineligible intervention: chlorhexidine rinse followed by SSD treatment |
| Ang 2003 | Ineligible intervention: chlorhexidine cleansing then SSD treatment for deeper burns |
| Babb 1977 | Ineligible study design: quasi‐randomised trial |
| Bowser 1981 | Ineligiblestudy design: quasi‐randomised trial |
| Brown 2016 | Antiseptic agent did not differ between groups |
| Cason 1966 | Ineligible study design: quasi‐randomised trial |
| Chen 2007 | Ineligible study design: study designed only to test moisture‐absorption properties of dressings over short time period |
| Chmyrev 2011 | Ineligible population ‐ post‐surgical burn wounds |
| Chokotho 2005 | Ineligible intervention ‐ comparison of non‐antiseptic with a mixture of antiseptic and non‐antiseptic agents |
| Choudhary 2013 | Ineligible study design: quasi‐randomised trial |
| Colombo 1993 | Ineligible population: minority burns patients |
| Daryabeigi 2010 | Ineligible study design: quasi‐randomised trial |
| Fisher 1968 | Ineligible was not the only systematic difference between the groups: other agents included in sprays |
| Gee Kee 2015 | Ineligible agent did not differ between groups |
| Helvig 1979 | Ineligible study design: quasi‐randomised trial |
| Kumar 2004 | Ineligible intervention: combination of SSD and chlorhexidine |
| Madhusudhan 2015 | Ineligiblepopulation ‐ residual burns were a minority of participants |
| Mohammadi 2013 | Ineligible study design: quasi‐randomised trial |
| Palombo 2011 | Ineligible population (post‐surgery burns) |
| Shoma 2010 | Ineligible intervention: additional treatments given in both comparison groups |
| Subrahmanyam 1993a | Ineligible population: burn wounds a minority of included participants |
| Subrahmanyam 1999 | Antiseptic was not only systematic difference between groups |
| Tredget 1998 | Antiseptic agent did not differ between groups |
| Vehmeyer‐Heeman 2005 | Wrong population: post‐surgical burn wounds |
| Verbelen 2014 | Antiseptic agent did not differ between groups |
| Weng 2009 | Antiseptic was not only systematic difference between groups |
| Xu 2009 | Ineligible study design: agents under investigation only used for short period to assess blood and urine levels |
| Zhu 2006 | Ineligible study design: quasi‐randomised trial |
RCT: randomised controlled trial; SSD: silver sulfadiazine