Remote monitoring of clubfoot treatment with digital photographs in low resource settings: Is it accurate?

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Clinical examination and functional assessment are often the first steps to assess outcome of clubfoot treatment. Clinical photographs may be an adjunct used to assess treatment outcomes in lower resourced settings where physical review by a specialist is limited. We aimed to evaluate the diagnostic performance of photographic images of patients with clubfoot in assessing outcome following treatment. METHODS:In this single-centre diagnostic accuracy study, we included all children with clubfoot from a cohort treated between 2011 and 2013, in 2017. Two physiotherapists trained in clubfoot management calculated the Assessing Clubfoot Treatment (ACT) score for each child to decide if treatment was successful or if further treatment was required. Photographic images were then taken

SUBMITTER: Smythe T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7228114 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature