No funding for this project (including the gathering, analysis or publication of any data obtained from it) or salary support for SCW or RE was provided by the company for any part of this project. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.ĭata Availability: All relevant data are within the paper and its Supporting Information files.įunding: The authors received no specific funding for this work. Received: Accepted: JPublished: August 17, 2017Ĭopyright: © 2017 Wang et al. PLoS ONE 12(8):Įditor: Antonio Facchiano, IDI, Istituto Dermopatico dell'Immacolata, ITALY (2017) Point-of-care wound visioning technology: Reproducibility and accuracy of a wound measurement app. Furthermore, there was no statistical difference between the temperature differences measured using the infrared camera and the clinically tested reference thermometer.Ĭitation: Wang SC, Anderson JAE, Evans R, Woo K, Beland B, Sasseville D, et al. The ruler method also yielded reliable wound measurements (ICC = 0.92–0.97), albeit lower than that of the Swift Wound app.

High inter-rater reliabilities (ICC = 0.97–1.00) and high accuracies were obtained using the Swift Wound app across raters of different levels of training in wound care. To evaluate the impact of training on the reproducibility of the Swift Wound app measurements, three novice raters with no wound care training, measured the length, width and area of 12 plastic model wounds using the app. Accuracy measurements were determined by assessing differences in surface area measurements of 15 plastic wounds between a digital planimeter of known accuracy and the Swift Wound app.

The skin surface temperature of 37 patients was also measured using an infrared FLIR ™ camera integrated with the Swift Wound app and using the clinically accepted reference thermometer Exergen DermaTemp 1001.

The wounds of 87 patients were measured using the Swift Wound app and a ruler.

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