NCT03246945

Photograph Quality Rating Scale Study ("PQRS Study")

Assessing Parental Photographs of Skin Disease and the Concordance of a Virtual Diagnosis: Can 3 Simple Instructions Improve Photograph Quality?

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed description

Each patient/parent dyad will be randomized into one of two approximately equally sized groups; half of the subjects will be provided with an instruction sheet on how best to take photographs of skin conditions with their mobile devices (study group) and half will not be provided this instruction sheet (control group). Photographs will be evaluated for image quality and to provide a diagnosis (See attached forms including Photograph Quality Rating Scale).

Conditions

• Dermatology/Skin - Other

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Instructions on taking photographs provided, see methods	Parent-patient dyads were provided with written 3-step instructions on how best to take a photograph of skin conditions using a smart phone

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-03-01
• Primary completion: 2016-12-01
• Completion: 2016-12-01
• First posted: 2017-08-11
• Last updated: 2017-10-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States