Systemwide Clinical Ultrasound Program Development: An Expert Consensus Model

Clinical ultrasound (CUS) is integral to the practice of an increasing number of medical specialties. Guidelines are needed to ensure effective CUS utilization across health systems. Such guidelines should address all aspects of CUS within a hospital or health system. These include leadership, train...

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Published in:The western journal of emergency medicine Vol. 19; no. 4; pp. 649 - 653
Main Authors: Strony, Robert, Marin, Jennifer, Bailitz, John, Dean, Anthony, Blaivas, Mike, Tayal, Vivek, Raio, Chris, Liu, Rachel, Woods, Aimee, Zwank, Michael, Fields, Matthew, Abo, Alyssa, Wu, Stan, Kang, Tarina, Liu, Teresa, Leo, Megan, Smalley, Courtney, Chiricolo, Jerry, Chilstrom, Mikaela, Lewiss, Resa
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States University of California Digital Library - eScholarship 01.07.2018
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine
eScholarship Publishing, University of California
Subjects:
Collaboration
Consensus
Continuing education
Departments
Documentation
Emergency medical care
Hospitals
Humans
Information technology
Infrastructure
Leadership
Medicine
Pediatrics
Program Development
Quality control
Quality of Health Care
Reimbursement
Ultrasonic imaging
Ultrasonography - statistics & numerical data
Ultrasound
Workflow
ISSN:1936-9018, 1936-900X, 1936-9018
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Summary:Clinical ultrasound (CUS) is integral to the practice of an increasing number of medical specialties. Guidelines are needed to ensure effective CUS utilization across health systems. Such guidelines should address all aspects of CUS within a hospital or health system. These include leadership, training, competency, credentialing, quality assurance and improvement, documentation, archiving, workflow, equipment, and infrastructure issues relating to communication and information technology. To meet this need, a group of CUS subject matter experts, who have been involved in institution- and/or systemwide clinical ultrasound (SWCUS) program development convened. The purpose of this paper was to create a model for SWCUS development and implementation.
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ISSN:1936-9018
1936-900X
1936-9018
DOI:10.5811/westjem.2018.4.37152