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Clinical photography in a high risk foot clinic: a quality audit

Auteurs: Jessica M White, Hugh G Dickson, Erika N Koo, Gentry S Winters, Marion G Harpur, John Widdup, Namson S Lau

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Foot and Ankle Research | bijlage 1/2011

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Background

The High Risk Foot Clinic at Liverpool Hospital has employed a standardised system for monitoring the progress of ulcers of the feet since January 2010. A form is completed for each patient with fields for identification, clinical photograph, and clinical details. The forms are reviewed for all patients under current treatment at a weekly meeting. We reviewed the foot ulcer progress charts, examining in particular the quality of the clinical photographs.

Method

A manual review of the charts in use from January 2010 until 30 September 2010 was performed by a single reviewer. Data was collected on number of charts per patient, presence of a clinical photograph, quality of the photograph (focus, lighting and distance), completion of clinical details, and University of Texas wound classification. Data was entered into an Excel© spreadsheet.

Results

The review included 732 charts. Of these, 731 had a photograph, and 623 (85%) were of good quality. The most commonly completed clinical detail was “probe to bone - yes/no” (99%), followed by “antibiotic - yes/no” (97%), “offloading device” (81%), and Texas Wound Classification (76%). The range of charts per person was 1-23.

Conclusions

The completion of data on our form appeared to follow the form design, with the frequency of items completed echoing the position of the item on the form. Anecdotally, our group has found clinical photographs to be of great assistance in monitoring our patients, especially when discussing the need for biopsy and for additional off-loading. However, the audit indicated that opportunities for improvement exist. The most common error in photography in our group is failure to use the macro setting to allow close-up images. Fortunately, digital photographs are easy to repeat.
This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://​creativecommons.​org/​licenses/​by/​2.​0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Titel
Clinical photography in a high risk foot clinic: a quality audit
Auteurs
Jessica M White
Hugh G Dickson
Erika N Koo
Gentry S Winters
Marion G Harpur
John Widdup
Namson S Lau
Publicatiedatum
01-12-2011
Uitgeverij
BioMed Central
Gepubliceerd in
Journal of Foot and Ankle Research / Uitgave bijlage 1/2011
Elektronisch ISSN: 1757-1146
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1757-1146-4-S1-P58

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