Wound assessment and monitoring apparatus and method
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1. A computer program product embodied in an computer readable medium, the computer program product comprising instructions that when executed cause a computing device to be operable as a device for monitoring the development of wounds by patients of a health care facility, the device operating to:
- display a survey to be conducted on patients of the health care facility, the survey including at least one wound risk assessment selected from a plurality of possible wound risk assessments, display information about a patient for whom the survey is to be conducted, receive survey data for the patient periodically during the patient'"'"'s stay at the facility, and display a risk score for each wound risk assessment in the survey based on the survey data for the patient.
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Abstract
A wound assessment and monitoring apparatus and method is provided for monitoring the development of wounds by patients of a health care facility. Surveys are conducted on patients of the health care facility to collect wound information, and wound assessments are performed.
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1. A computer program product embodied in an computer readable medium, the computer program product comprising instructions that when executed cause a computing device to be operable as a device for monitoring the development of wounds by patients of a health care facility, the device operating to:
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display a survey to be conducted on patients of the health care facility, the survey including at least one wound risk assessment selected from a plurality of possible wound risk assessments, display information about a patient for whom the survey is to be conducted, receive survey data for the patient periodically during the patient'"'"'s stay at the facility, and display a risk score for each wound risk assessment in the survey based on the survey data for the patient. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method implemented on a computing device, for studying the development of wounds by patients of a facility, the method comprising the steps of:
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receiving a plurality of first survey data for a first facility over a network, the first survey data including wound information and support surface information for patients of the first facility, storing the first survey data in a memory, and analyzing the first survey data to determine whether there is a relationship between the wound information and the support surface information. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A computer program product embodied in a computer-readable medium, the computer program product comprising instructions that when executed cause a computing device to be operable as a device for monitoring the incidence of wounds in patients of a health care facility, the device operating to:
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receive a plurality of wound information for a grouping of patients of the facility, the wound information including an indication of whether a patient has a wound, compute a wound incidence percentage for the grouping of patients, and communicate the wound incidence percentage to a person associated with the facility. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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