This is a bibliographic record of a published health technology assessment. No evaluation of the quality of this assessment has been made for the HTA database.

This aim of this report was to assess the most effective methods of pressure ulcer prevention in patients in long term intensive care.

A recently published evidence based guidelines document on pressure ulcer risk assessment and prevention was located. The guidelines are still the 'first version of the final draft', available for comment until 15 September 2000. The expected date of the revised final draft is December 2000. The guideline is evidence-linked, rather than evidence-based. As there was insufficient evidence to guide all clinical decisions, a number of recommendations for practice were solely or partially based on consensus expert opinion.

We also identified one systematic review. This review has a number of limitations and does not add any additional useful evidence to that already found in the guideline.