The uptake of the international pressure ulcer/injury prevention and treatment guidelines: An updated systematic citation analysis.

ABSTRACT: The European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel, National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel, and Pan Pacific Pressure Injury Alliance collaboratively developed three editions of the International Clinical Practice Guidelines for preventing and treating pressure ulcers/injuries in 2009, 2014, and 2019. Dissemination and uptake of these guidelines are important to improve care. The aim of this work was to provide an updated and expanded citation analysis of the three published guidelines. Referencing formats, citation counts, and global distribution of citations of the 2009, 2014, and 2019 guidelines were searched in the citation database Scopus from 2009 to 2023. Duplicates were removed manually. The search identified 330 referencing formats with 2887 citations from 2009 to 2023 for the three guide

SUBMITTER: El Genedy-Kalyoncu M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11386271 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature