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. 2018 Jul;19(4):649-653.
doi: 10.5811/westjem.2018.4.37152. Epub 2018 Jun 5.

Systemwide Clinical Ultrasound Program Development: An Expert Consensus Model

Robert Strony  1 , Jennifer R Marin  2 , John Bailitz  3 , Anthony J Dean  4 , Mike Blaivas  5 , Vivek Tayal  6 , Chris Raio  7 , Rachel Liu  8 , Aimee Woods  9 , Michael Zwank  10 , Matthew Fields  11 , Alyssa Abo  12 , Stan Wu  13 , Tarina Kang  14 , Teresa Liu  15 , Megan Leo  16 , Courtney Smalley  17 , Jerry Chiricolo  18 , Mikaela Chilstrom  19 , Resa E Lewiss  20
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Systemwide Clinical Ultrasound Program Development: An Expert Consensus Model

Robert Strony et al. West J Emerg Med. 2018 Jul.

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Abstract

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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Conflicts of Interest: By the WestJEM article submission agreement, all authors are required to disclose all affiliations, funding sources and financial or management relationships that could be perceived as potential sources of bias. No author has professional or financial relationships with any companies that are relevant to this study. There are no conflicts of interest or sources of funding to declare.

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