Reading healing trajectories: healing, stalling, and worsening
analytics
How a wound healing analytics view turns visit-by-visit measurements into a clear trend, and how clinicians can use it to adjust a plan.
A single measurement tells you where a wound is. A trajectory tells you where it is heading.
What Healing Trajectory shows
Healing Trajectory follows each wound's area over time and sorts it into one of three groups:
- Healing: area is shrinking at a steady pace.
- Stalling: area has changed little across visits.
- Worsening: area is growing.
How to read it
Look at the direction over several visits, not one data point. A single odd measurement can come from photo angle or swelling. A pattern is more informative.
How to use it
When a wound stalls, review the usual factors: infection, offloading, perfusion, dressing choice, and adherence. The tool flags the pattern. The clinician decides what to change.
Where to find it
The Healing Dashboard shows trajectories across your caseload. More on the wound healing software page.
Go deeper with Healing Trajectory explained and reading trajectories without guesswork.