Interest of Photographs by Smartphone in Dermatology (PHOTODERM)

Central Hospital, Nancy, France

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Dermatitis

Treatments: Other: telemedecine

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03493724

2017-A02607-46

Details and patient eligibility

About

To study the diagnostic performance of the images on the smartphone compare the result of the clinical examination, all the dermatoses combined and by family of pathology (inflammatory, wound, oncology, infectious, allergology), during urgent request requests in dermatology

Full description

The study is conducted in the dermatology department, for a maximum duration of 6 months. We include patients who require dermatological advice and for whom their doctor sends us photographs.

Doctors contact us by telephone, describe the symptoms and send photographs according to the secure procedure.

Patients are admitted for consultation and the diagnosis by photography is compared with the clinical diagnosis

Enrollment: 205 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• For which our fellow doctors ask a dermatological opinion for diagnostic purposes, after clinical examination of the patient, in an emergency
• After obtaining the oral consent by the requesting doctor then informing and signing a non-opposition form during the consultation at the University Hospital of Nancy
• Affiliation to a social protection
• Doctors must have signed and sent back an ethical charter, where they undertake to send the image via MSsante, then to erase the image of the smartphone

Exclusion criteria

• Patients under the protection of justice, tutorship or curatorship
• Doctors : lack of smartphone powerful enough to offer a quality image