Initial Clinical Experience with a Simple, Home System for Early Detection and Monitoring of Diabetic Foot Ulcers: The Foot Selfie
Authors' conclusion
With minimal training, patients transmitted diagnostic-quality images from home on most days, allowing clinicians to review serial images. This system permits inexpensive home foot screening and monitoring of DFUs. Further studies are needed to determine whether it can reduce morbidity of DFUs and/or the associated cost of care. Artificial intelligence integration could improve scalability.
Study context
- Population
- Patients from a limb-salvage clinic10 male
- Participants
- 15 patients
- Outcome
- Use and image quality of the Foot Selfie system
- Follow-up
- Six months
Methodological detailssingle-group, smartphone-based home imaging, Patients asked to image feet daily for six months; transmitted results reviewed weekly
- Single-group
- Smartphone-based home imaging
- Patients asked to image feet daily for six months; transmitted results reviewed weekly
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
six months
Days with uploaded images (of eligible study days)
median 76%
Instruction time before use
≈5 minutes
Further findings
Lesions monitored
- Active wounds monitored
- 12
- Pre-ulcerative lesions monitored
- 39
- Wounds at study outset
- 5
- Pre-ulcerative lesions at study outset
- 13
- Wounds healed
- 7
- Pre-ulcerative lesions reversed
- 20
Participant evaluation (questionnaire at five time points)
- Rated useful, empowering and preferable to previous foot screening methods
Original publication
Initial Clinical Experience with a Simple, Home System for Early Detection and Monitoring of Diabetic Foot Ulcers: The Foot Selfie. J Diabetes Sci Technol. Published 31 October 2021. doi:10.
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