title: Setting up wound dressing guidelines: avoiding the pitfalls.
abstract: Wound dressings guidelines promote rational prescribing. The development of such guidelines is described, including how to get started, the collection of data, format, contents and avoiding the pitfalls. After implementation, the guidelines require on-going monitoring, review, updating and audit.
authors.affiliation: Pharmaceutical Public Health, North Wales Health Authority.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Morgan
mesh_terms: D001458:Bandages / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D009731:Nursing Audit / Q000379:methods; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research / Q000379:methods; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D014945:Wound Healing; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000451:nursing*