| Methods |
RCT. Randomisation, allocation concealment and blinding of participants and investigators (including outcome assessors) not reported. |
| Participants |
76 patients (age range 3 months to 15 years, mean age 3.4 years, mean %TBSA 2.1%) with partial thickness burns presenting to an emergency department within 24 hours of injury |
| Interventions |
Silicon‐coated nylon dressing (Mepitel, Molnlycke Health Care, USA) covered with a gauze soaked in chlorhexidine versus SSD (Flamazine, Smith and Nephew) covered by tulle gras and gauze |
| Outcomes |
Time to complete wound healing
Number of dressing changes
Incidence of wound infection |
| Notes |
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| Risk of bias |
| Bias |
Authors' judgement |
Support for judgement |
| Random sequence generation (selection bias) |
Unclear risk |
Random assignment but method not specified |
| Allocation concealment (selection bias) |
Unclear risk |
Not reported |
| Blinding (performance bias and detection bias)
All outcomes |
High risk |
Care protocol differed. Participants and investigators not blinded. Blinding of assessors not reported. |
| Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias)
All outcomes |
Low risk |
Withdrawal greater than 10% but similar between groups and reasons for missing data unlikely to be related to outcomes |
| Selective reporting (reporting bias) |
High risk |
Pilot study ‐ other outcomes such as pain and adverse events not reported |
| Other bias |
Unclear risk |
Characteristics at baseline not reported for all participants in the randomised groups |
