This year, November 20th is globally recognized as "Stop Pressure Ulcer Day." This action day (always held on the third Thursday in November), initiated by the European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (EPUAP) and other international partners, focuses attention on a serious and preventable health problem: the pressure ulcer (or decubitus ulcer).

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Pressure ulcers not only represent an immense burden for affected patients—they mean pain, extended hospital stays, and in the worst-case scenario, life-threatening complications. They are also a significant cost factor and an indicator of the quality of care in medical facilities. The sad fact is: a large proportion of pressure ulcer cases are preventable.

We see it as our mission to equip medical personnel with simple, fast, and precise digital tools to measurably increase the quality of care. On this day, we want to demonstrate how improved documentation quality—especially in pressure ulcer prevention and treatment—can lead to fewer pressure ulcers.

📸 The Foundation: Precise, Mobile, and Standardized Wound Documentation

The first step toward prevention and successful treatment is exact and complete documentation. Manual, paper-based processes are error-prone, time-consuming, and complicate follow-up. This is where our app, imitoWound, comes in:

• Rapid Capture: Medical personnel can photograph pressure ulcers directly at the patient's bedside using standard smartphones, accurately measure them, and describe them according to expert standards—in a fraction of the time required by conventional methods.
• Objectivity and Validation: The scientifically validated, automatic wound measurement eliminates subjective estimations and ensures an objective assessment of the healing progression.
• Seamless Integration: All data and images are transferred to the digital patient file in compliance with data protection regulations.

📈 From Individual Cases to Strategic Insights: The Pressure Ulcer Statistics in imitoWound

imitoWound offers comprehensive evaluation options for optimizing pressure ulcer management. Using clear graphical representations, institution-internal pressure ulcers can be monitored and appropriate treatment measures can be initiated early.

The Pressure Ulcer Statistics in the web version of imitoWound provide those responsible for care, management, and quality control with a crucial, data-driven overview:

• Pressure Ulcer Incidence: You see the rate of newly developed pressure ulcers at a glance. This is a key indicator of treatment quality.
• Track Progression: Keep an eye on the healing process.
• Cross-Location Benchmarking: When used across multiple departments or sites, you can see which areas face the greatest challenges and where best practices can be established.

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The Added Value: The mobile, precise documentation in the app creates a reliable data foundation. The Pressure Ulcer Statistics in imitoWeb transform this data into meaningful key performance indicators (KPIs). This allows medical professionals to purposefully identify weaknesses in prevention, determine training needs, and measurably verify the success of countermeasures.

The "Stop Pressure Ulcer Day" reminds us that we have a responsibility to prevent avoidable suffering. By digitalizing pressure ulcer documentation, we are taking a decisive step: we are increasing the quality of documentation, creating transparency, and thereby enabling an evidence-based optimization of pressure ulcer prevention.