Intellicure Analytics
Dressings per Wound Care Visit
How many separate products it takes to dress a wound?
Every time a wound is dressed, the chart records which products were used. This page counts them. The charts below show how often each of those situations actually happens across more than a million wound-visits, and how the answer changes with the type of wound and the place the patient is seen.
Most-recent 8 complete quarters · Updated monthly · Scroll for the full breakdown
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wound-visits in this analysis, over the most recent eight complete quarters
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get by with one or two dressing items
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use four or more products at a single visit
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use four or more, in a hospital outpatient department versus everywhere else
What is a dressing item?
Any single product documented on the wound at that visit: the pad or gel touching the wound bed, the gauze or wrap holding it on, and anything packed into a cavity. Three different products at one visit means three dressing items.
What do the numbers mean?
The left edge counts wound care visits. The percentage above each bar is that bar’s share of the whole chart, so the percentages in one chart always add to 100%.
Why does it matter?
More products per visit means more supply cost, more nursing minutes, and more for a patient or caregiver to manage at home. Large gaps between similar wounds usually point to a difference in protocol rather than a difference in the wounds.
01 · The whole picture
Two dressing items is the most common answer
This is every wound visit in the database, regardless of what kind of wound it is or where it was treated. Read it left to right: how often does a visit involve one product, two products, three, and so on. The shape of this curve is the baseline that every chart further down the page is compared against.
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All wound types, all sites of care. Each bar is a count of wound-visits; the figure above it is that bar’s share of the total.
02 · Where the patient is seen
The same wound, dressed differently depending on the setting
A hospital outpatient department and a nursing facility are not working from the same supply cabinet or the same protocol. Switch the filter above the chart between all sites and HOPD only, and watch the tall end of the curve move. If setting made no difference, the two shapes would sit on top of each other.
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Use the site-of-care control above the chart to switch between every setting and hospital outpatient departments alone.
03 · Build your own comparison
Diabetic foot ulcers, venous leg ulcers and pressure ulcers, side by side
Now you drive. Tick a wound type, tick a site of care, and the chart redraws for exactly that slice. Compare a diabetic foot ulcer in a hospital outpatient department against the same wound treated in the home, or hold the setting still and step through the wound types. Every combination is one click.
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Tick any combination of wound type and site of care. With every box ticked, the chart shows the full population.
04 · Nothing held back
Every wound type in the database, down to burns and traumatic wounds
The chart above covers the three wound types most people ask about. This one opens the rest of the cabinet: chronic ulcers, surgical wounds, traumatic wounds, arterial ulcers and burns, each filterable against any site of care. This is the complete population behind every other chart on the page.
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All ten wound types recorded in the data, filterable against all five sites of care.
Data Qualifiers
Each observation is one wound visit from the most recent eight complete quarters, counted by visit date. A dressing item is a distinct product recorded as a primary dressing, a secondary dressing or a wound filler; a product filed in two of those roles at the same visit is counted once, not twice.
Visits with no dressing recorded in any of those three fields are left out entirely. A blank field cannot be told apart from a dressing that was applied but never charted, and counting blanks as zero would invent a result the data does not support.
Seven or more items are gathered into the final bar, because past that point the numbers get too thin to read as a shape. All wound types means every type present in the data: diabetic foot ulcers, venous leg ulcers and pressure ulcers, plus chronic ulcers, traumatic wounds, surgical wounds, arterial ulcers, diabetic ulcers and burns. Figures refresh monthly.
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