Critique of AHCPR's consumer guide--"treating pressure sores".

The consumer version of the clinical practice guidelines entitled "Treating Pressure Sores" was released by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) in December 1994. This review of the patient teaching booklet compares it to existing criteria-evaluating written tools. The AHCPR 1994 Consumer Guide meets almost all the criteria; one area that still needs improvement is the reading level.