Prevention and Treatment of Pressure Ulcers/Injuries: Clinical Practice Guideline

The International Guideline

Accessing the Guideline

The guideline presents recommendations made on the best evidence available at time of publication as consistent with the guideline methodology. Nothing in this guideline is intended as endorsement of a specific product. The guideline developers do not give any approvals for use of guideline branding or logos to endorse products. Nothing in this guideline is intended as advice regarding credentialing standards, coding standards or reimbursement regulations.
The full Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) includes the evidence-based recommendations and good practice statements, together with implementation considerations, evidence summaries and evidence discussion. The CPG provides helpful guidance for how to implement the recommendations. The full guideline also includes 20 quality indicators for auditing best practice in pressure injury prevention and treatment, and over 70 figures and tables as a resource for users.

The CPG is available for purchase in hard-copy or e-version.
The Quick Reference Guide (QRG) is designed for busy health professionals. The QRG is not intended for use in isolation from the CPG but provides a quick summary of the evidence-based recommendations, good practice statements and quality indicators.

The QRG is available for purchase in hard-copy or you may download the free e-version.


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Support Documents

The following supporting documents provide supporting information about the research data supporting the 2019 Guideline.

Methodology: The methodology protocol was published as a report on our website prior to the commencement of the third edition of the guideline and also as a peer-reviewed manuscript in the Journal of Tissue Viability.
Methodology: Search Strategy
Methodology: Consumer survey
Technical Documents: GRADE Evidence-to-Decision Frameworks
Technical Documents: Data Tables
Technical Documents: Development Team - Conflict of Interest Declarations

First (2009) and Second (2014) editions of the Guideline

The following supporting documents provide supporting information about the research data supporting the 2014 Guideline:

Technical Documents: Critical Appraisals (2014)
Technical Documents: Data Extraction Tables (2014)

To access archival copies of the second (2014) edition Clinical Practice Guideline and Quick Reference Guide,
please contact admin@internationalguideline.com.

Archival copies of the first (2009) edition Clinical Practice Guideline and Quick Reference Guide are no longer available.