Skin Substitutes for Treating Chronic Wounds (AHRQ)

This Technical Brief describes the various products commercially available in the United States that may be considered skin substitutes, examines systems used to classify skin substitutes, identifies and assesses the clinical literature evaluating skin substitutes published since the 2012 AHRQ report Skin Substitutes for Treating Chronic Wounds, and suggests the best practices that may be part of any future studies evaluating skin substitutes.