| Methods |
RCT. Allocation concealment and blinding of participants and investigators (including outcome assessors) not reported. |
| Participants |
18 patients (mean age 34 years) with second‐degree burns (mean %TBSA: 26) |
| Interventions |
Biosynthetic dressing (Hydron) versus SSD |
| Outcomes |
Time to complete wound healing
Patient perception/level of satisfaction with application or removal of dressing |
| Notes |
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| Risk of bias |
| Bias |
Authors' judgement |
Support for judgement |
| Random sequence generation (selection bias) |
Low risk |
"pre‐designed randomised code" |
| Allocation concealment (selection bias) |
Unclear risk |
Not reported |
| Blinding (performance bias and detection bias)
All outcomes |
High risk |
Care protocols were different so blinding of patients and investigators not feasible. Blinding of outcome assessors not reported. |
| Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias)
All outcomes |
Unclear risk |
Not reported |
| Selective reporting (reporting bias) |
High risk |
Satisfaction reported only for experimental group |
| Other bias |
High risk |
Patients acted as own control, giving rise to potential unit of analysis errors; although it appear as though there was one site for the "test" dressing and one site for the control dressing per patient (N = 15), the authors stated that 47 "test" dressings were evaluated, giving rise to further potential bias |
