EPUAP guidelines: On the role of nutrition in pressure ulcer prevention and management

Abstract

This issue of the EPUAP Review reproduces the draft text of a new EPUAP guideline covering the role of nutrition in pressure ulcer prevention and management. This guideline was initiated by the late Professor Gerry Bennett during the EPUAP Open Meeting held in Budapest last year. Since September 2002, the guideline development group (members listed below) met in Amsterdam in February 2003 with subsequent revisions to the draft text made via e-mail. This draft guideline will be presented for discussion during the EPUAP Open Meeting to be held in Tampere. All comments received during this presentation will be considered by the guideline development group and the text revised where appropriate. If you have any comments regarding the content of this draft guideline please send them to the EPUAP Business Office by the end of October 2003. We have also reproduced the list of references on pressure ulcers and nutrition considered by the guideline development group.