Revise Guidelines/Standards to Reflect Clinical Evidence and New Technology

Abstract

In recent years, professional medical societies and other organizations have developed clinical practice guidelines and standards to guide the work of wound care scientists, manufactures, researchers, and clinicians. Wound care stakeholders tend to follow the guidelines and standards developed by organizations to which they belong. This article emphasizes the need to monitor all published wound care guidelines and standards and to revise them when new clinical evidence is published, and/or new technology is released. The article also emphasizes that payers use published clinical practice guidelines and standards to make coverage and payment decisions.