Automated ankle brachial pressure index measurement devices to detect peripheral arterial disease in people with leg ulcers

Recommendation ID

DG52/1

Question

The committee recommends more research on diagnostic accuracy in people with leg ulcers. The following considerations should be made when doing this research:

Any explanatory notes (if applicable)

Where the devices would be used in clinical practice and by who (specialist and non-specialist users; see section 3.11)

The most appropriate threshold for the automated measurement (see section 3.12); if an alternative threshold to the currently established threshold is being researched, then a prespecified threshold should be used and research should be done in a population not used to derive this threshold (external validation)

Whether using additional outputs from other devices such as doppler waveform and pulse volume waveform impacts clinical decision making (see section 3.5).

Source guidance details

Comes from guidance: Automated ankle brachial pressure index measurement devices to detect peripheral arterial disease in people with leg ulcers
Number: DG52
Date issued: May 2023

Other details

Is this a recommendation for the use of a technology only in the context of research?	No
Is it a recommendation that suggests collection of data or the establishment of a register?	No