Table 1

Inclusion and exclusion criteria for systematic review

Inclusion criteriaExclusion criteria

  • Trial or observational study assessing the impact of an intervention for patients with burns.

  • Reports a burn wound infection outcome in the methods, results or discussion.

  • Not written in English.

  • Not exclusively about burns (eg, trauma population).

  • Non-human subjects.

  • Laboratory based, not carried out in clinical setting (eg, exudate or blood samples from humans tested within laboratory).

  • Does not report a burn wound infectionoutcome.

  • Abstract, systematic review or commentary paper.

  • Not a trial or observational study reporting an intervention to treat burn injuries.