Interest of Photographs by Smartphone in Dermatology

• Conditions: Dermatitis

• Registration Number: NCT03493724
• Lead Sponsor: Central Hospital, Nancy, France

Brief Summary

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

Detailed 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

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2018-02
• Study Start: 2018-02-13
• Study First Submitted: 2018-03-09
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-04-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2018-04-09
• Study First Posted: 2018-04-10
• Last Update Posted: 2018-04-10
• Primary Completion: 2018-07-01
• Study Completion: 2018-09-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 205

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

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values globally	through study completion, an average 6 months	evaluation of the diagnostic performance of the test
sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values stratified	through study completion, an average 6 months	stratified on the families of pathologies : infectious pathology, inflammatory dermatosis, allergology, wound, oncology

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Calculation of Cohen's kappa concordance between dermatologists	through study completion, an average 6 months	assessment of interobserver diagnostic agreement

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

CHRU Nancy, hopitaux de Brabois; 🇫🇷 Nancy, Vandoeuvre Les Nancy, France