This poster was featured at SAWC Fall 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Authors: Lucas Goldstone, Rob D. J. Fraser, Justin Allport, Heba Tallah Mohammed, Rishabbh Gupta
Introduction: Many existing tools to monitor wound healing are based on speculative models and do not leverage the large longitudinal databases that exist today. As a result, they are easy to apply to individual cases, but do not provide insight on how wounds are progressing relative to typical healing patterns.
Centile curves are an intuitive way to compare an individual’s status against population norms. This study explores the feasibility of creating and using Healing Centiles based on a large database of wound documentation as a means of allowing patients and clinicians to understand their status.
Objective: The goal of the study was to build centile charts of wound progression over time, validate their applicability, and explore their useability. Centiles were modelled based on 4 common wound types documented using a digital wound care platform in Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs). The wound progression metric we modelled is an AI-based healing index, though similar methods can be applied to other healing metrics.
Results:
- Our study demonstrates the feasibility of creating healing centiles using similar methods as those employed to create the well-known paediatric growth charts, given a large dataset of healed wounds.
- These centiles provide an interpretable view of how a wound is healing relative to other similar wounds, potentially helping patients understand the healing process and adding a tool to aid clinicians in describing, visualizing, and triaging wounds.
To learn more about the research conducted for this poster, or to speak with the Swift Medical team about digital wound care, contact us.
