title: Performance of plantar pressure measurement devices (PMDs): update on consensus activities.
abstract: A worldwide scientific discussion has been started in 2010 on the need for standardisation, assessment, and delivery of recommendations in the field of plantar pressure distribution measurement at different levels: hardware performance, measuring protocols, data processing, parameters and indicators in diagnosis and therapy. The Italian National Institute of Health (Istituto Superiore di Sanità, ISS) has been conducting for years a scientific project and several activities aimed to design, validate and implement dedicated testing methods and recommendations in the field of pressure measurement devices (PMDs). The present commentary contains a summary of the activities conducted up to now and some future steps which are going to be done at an international level.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Tecnologie e Salute, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena 299, Rome, Italy. claudia.giacomozzi@iss.it
authors.forename: Claudia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Giacomozzi
mesh_terms: D032921:Consensus; D004864:Equipment and Supplies; D005528:Foot / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008365:Manometry / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000592:standards*; D011312:Pressure; D012015:Reference Standards