Point-of-care wound visioning technology: Reproducibility and accuracy of a wound measurement app.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Current wound assessment practices are lacking on several measures. For example, the most common method for measuring wound size is using a ruler, which has been demonstrated to be crude and inaccurate. An increase in periwound temperature is a classic sign of infection but skin temperature is not always measured during wound assessments. To address this, we have developed a smartphone application that enables non-contact wound surface area and temperature measurements. Here we evaluate the inter-rater reliability and accuracy of this novel point-of-care wound assessment tool.

Methods and findings

The wounds of 87 patients were measured using the Swift Wound app and a ruler. The skin surface temperature of 37 patients was also measured using an infrared FLIR™ came

SUBMITTER: Wang SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5560698 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature