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Pressure ulcers: prevention and management

  • Clinical guideline
  • Reference number: CG179
  • Published:  23 April 2014
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  1. Implementation support
  2. Education
  3. Audit and service improvement
  4. Summary versions
  5. Research recommendations
  6. Guidance into practice

Tools and resources

Tools to help you put the guidance into practice.

Implementation support

  • Endorsed resource – S.M.A.R.T (Skin Moisture Alert Reporting Tool)

Education

  • Quick guide: Helping to prevent pressure ulcers - for registered managers of care homes

  • Webinar: Pressure ulcer prevention and management for adults in care homes (NICE\SCIE January 2019)

Audit and service improvement

  • Clinical audit tool – pressure ulcers prevention in adults (Excel 262 KB)

    Published:
    05 August 2014
  • Clinical audit tool – pressure ulcers prevention in neonates, infants, children and young people (Excel 243 KB)

    Published:
    05 August 2014
  • Baseline assessment tool (Excel 395 KB)

    Published:
    23 April 2014

Summary versions

  • Algorithm for risk assessment, prevention and management in children (PDF 225 KB)

    Published:
    23 April 2014
  • Algorithm for risk assessment, prevention and management in adults (PDF 223 KB)

    Published:
    23 April 2014

Research recommendations

  • Research recommendations information

Guidance into practice

  • About the Into practice guide

  • Practical steps to improving the quality of care and services using NICE guidance