{"id":136405,"date":"2026-10-17T09:51:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T14:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=136405"},"modified":"2026-10-14T10:34:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:34:29","slug":"dr-cuddigan-chairs-international-guideline-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2026\/10\/17\/dr-cuddigan-chairs-international-guideline-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Cuddigan chairs international guideline group"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Janet Cuddigan, PhD, professor emeritus in the UNMC College of Nursing, chaired an interdisciplinary, international panel of experts to develop the 4<sup>th<\/sup> Edition of &#8220;Prevention and Treatment of Pressure Ulcers\/Injuries: The International Guideline.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Guideline development was sponsored by the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel (NPIAP), European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (EPUAP) and Pan Pacific Pressure Injury Alliance (PPPIA).\u00a0Using the gold standard method for guideline development, Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE), the guideline panel evaluated over 3,000 pressure injury studies published since the third edition.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Published systematic reviews, meta-analyses and randomized controlled clinical trials\u00a0 were evaluated for quality.\u00a0Additional meta-analyses were conducted by the guideline methodologist.\u00a0 Recommendations and Good Practice Statements drafted by the12-member guideline panel were reviewed by 17 Associate Organizations, panels of over 200 clinical experts and consumers from 40 countries and over 900 stakeholders. 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