Photograph Quality Rating Scale Study ("PQRS Study")

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Dermatology/Skin - Other

In brief

Advances in smart phone-based photography (both quality and image transmission) offer the potential to greatly improve access to pediatric dermatologists. However, the accuracy of diagnoses reliant on parent-provided photographs has been neither measured nor compared to diagnoses based on in-person examinations. Therefore, the primary objective of this study was to assess the concordance between diagnoses based on photographs taken by parents (or legal guardians) and those based on in-person examinations. A secondary aim was to assess the effect of photography instructions on improving this concordance.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03246945

Run by

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

People needed

40

Starts

2016-03-01

Expected to finish

2016-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-10-02

Who can join

Age: any, up to 17. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Must be a new patient/parent dyad arrived at the main pediatric dermatology clinic
• Patient must be under the age of 18.
• Consenting parent or guardian must be present and able to speak English to participate.
• Patients are either already enrolled in MyCHOP (MyChart) or are willing to enroll during the encounter.
• Parent or legal guardian has a mobile phone with the capability to download the free MyChart app.
• Parents have a data plan that allows them to download the MyChart app (if not already downloaded) and upload pictures, and are willing to accept any potential data charges incurred with these activities.
• Patient has active skin lesion or rash that can be photographed during the clinic visit.

You may not qualify if…

• Patient is over the age of 18.
• Parent or guardian is not present or not able to speak English.
• Parent or guardian is not able to enroll in MyCHOP (MyChart).
• Parent or guardian does not have a mobile phone capable of downloading the MyChart app.
• Photographs are not able to be taken (phone battery dies, phone/app does not work, patient is not cooperative, participant does not have time).
• If there are no active skin lesions to photograph the patient/parent will not be enrolled (e.g. hives that are inactive, hyperhidrosis [excessive sweating], itching without a rash, resolved skin lesions [e.g. warts, molluscum]).
• Patients presenting for a general full body skin exam will be excluded, as this would require full body photography, which is too time consuming. (Note: this does not include evaluation of one individual mole [nevus], which can be included in the study).

Where it is running

• The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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