Figure 10. Disposition of Submission by Individuals (Text description)

Figure 10 is an attrition diagram that depicts the status of documents that individual parties submitted for possible inclusion in the report.

The diagram begins with a box outlining the total submission of 39 documents. Several boxes ensue which are connected by arrows going from top to bottom which follow the submissions as they are being screened for possible inclusion in the report.

In the first frame, we compare the Individuals submission to submissions by other interested stakeholders and remove any duplicates. The individual submissions included 14 duplicate submissions.

An arrow leads from the 25 Unique Submissions to the Initial Screening Phase where documents may be excluded, used in our Background Section or passed to the next level. In this instance, 20 documents were identified for exclusion. One was a "case report, abstract or poster presentation"; and 19 were "personal communications."

Zero documents were identified for inclusion in our Background Section.

The path then follows the five full articles remaining. During this phase of screening we do a more extensive screening which is again based on our pre-determined inclusion/exclusion criteria. Go to our Methods Section for additional information on the criteria.

Four full articles were excluded during this evaluation phase. One included a duplicate study population, one was a narrative review, one had no relevant outcomes and one was excluded for Other Reasons which may include "inclusion of healthy subjects", "lack of reporting wound healing outcomes" or "patients treated with dual therapies."

One study met the inclusion criteria and was included in Key Question 1. Note: Language has been corrected to reflect screening of meeting abstracts, poster presentations and other documents in addition to abstracts of full articles.

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