Table 1.

Eligibility criteria for the inclusion in the meta‐analysis

Inclusion criteria	1	Randomised controlled trial comparing growth factor (GF) therapy with standard wound care alone for partial‐thickness burns
	2	Sufficient data reported for at least one clinical endpoint of interests
	3	Number of patients and wounds reported for each arms
Exclusion criteria	1	In vitro experiments or animal studies
	2	Articles from the same institution and/or author with patients duplicated
	3	Articles with less than 10 cases examined for each arm