The recommendations for practice made in the NIPCM are informed by living systematic literature reviews.
Literature reviews are undertaken following defined processes for evidence identification and appraisal, and development of recommendations for practice which are then translated into NIPCM content. These processes follow a defined governance structure, details of these are found in the Development Methodology.
Please note that in the updated Development Methodology (March 2025), appendix 5 containing all search strategies has been removed. We are currently in the process of moving individual search strategies to their appropriate literature reviews.
The scientific evidence for the NIPCM is reviewed on a real time basis and details of the reviews reported quarterly.
Any changes identified in the scientific literature may lead to a change being made to the NIPCM following stakeholder engagement.