The aim of the 7th Global Forum on Incontinence is to explore how the different and often competing perspectives of patients, carers, policymakers and payers can be reconciled, to improve the quality and cost effectiveness of continence care provision. Prof. Dimitri Beeckman presented and reflected at the meeting in Rome about skin health as a valuable outcome measure in relation to incontinence.
Patient safety has for some years been high on the European Commission health care agenda. On April 10, 2018 Prof. Dimitri Beeckman (Ghent University, Belgium) and Ass. Prof. Andrea Pokorná (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) met with Members of the European Parliament in Brussels to discuss the importance of PU prevention and patient safety on the European healthcare agenda.
The GLOBIAD categorises IAD severity based on visual inspection of the affected skin areas.