Interrater and intrarater reliability of silhouette wound imaging device.
OBJECTIVE
The objective of this study was to investigate the interrater and intrarater reliability of a wound imaging and measurement system called SilhouetteMobile.


METHODS
Interrater and intrarater reliability study.


METHODS
Community nursing, Victoria, Australia.


METHODS
Seven community nurses including Wound Management Clinical Nurse Consultants and Wound Resource Nurses.


METHODS
Average wound surface area of 14 wound images as captured using a wound imaging and measurement system called SilhouetteMobile.


RESULTS
High interrater and intrarater reliability were maintained across different users and different assessments by the same user and were also found to be unaffected by image quality. Reliability was poor when tracing small wounds.


CONCLUSIONS
Silhouette is a highly reliable tool for wound imaging and measurement, although reliability is reduced when annotating small wound areas.
Royal District Nursing Service, Helen Macpherson Smith Institute of Community Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Charne
C
Miller
Leila
L
Karimi
Lisa
L
Donohue
Suzanne
S
Kapp
D000328:Adult; D003153:Community Health Services; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015588:Observer Variation; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012883:Skin Ulcer / Q000473:pathology*