Evaluation of Wound Photography for Remote Postoperative Assessment of Surgical Site Infections.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Surgeons are increasingly interested in using mobile and online applications with wound photography to monitor patients after surgery. Early work using remote care to diagnose surgical site infections (SSIs) demonstrated improved diagnostic accuracy using wound photographs to augment patients' electronic reports of symptoms, but it is unclear whether these findings are reproducible in real-world practice.

Objective

To determine how wound photography affects surgeons' abilities to diagnose SSIs in a pragmatic setting.

Design, setting, and participants

This prospective study compared surgeons' paired assessments of postabdominal surgery case vignettes with vs without wound photography for detection of SSIs. Data for case vignettes were collected prospectively

SUBMITTER: Kummerow Broman K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6439665 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature