Open AccessClinical photography in a high risk foot clinic: a quality audit
Author(s) -
White Jessica M,
Dickson Hugh G,
Koo Erika N,
Winters Gentry S,
Harpur Marion G,
Widdup John,
Lau Namson S
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of foot and ankle research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.763
H-Index - 39
ISSN - 1757-1146
DOI - 10.1186/1757-1146-4-s1-p58
Subject(s) - medicine , audit , foot (prosody) , rehabilitation , podiatry , photography , physical therapy , optometry , medical physics , physical medicine and rehabilitation , general surgery , alternative medicine , pathology , linguistics , philosophy , management , economics , art , visual arts
Background The High Risk Foot Clinic at Liverpool Hospital has employed a standardised system for monitoring the progress of ulcers of the feet since January 2010. A form is completed for each patient with fields for identification, clinical photograph, and clinical details. The forms are reviewed for all patients under current treatment at a weekly meeting. We reviewed the foot ulcer progress charts, examining in particular the quality of the clinical photographs.