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Review
. 2024 Apr 23:25:e21.
doi: 10.1017/S1463423624000112.

World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of General Practitioners and Family Physicians (WONCA) Europe position paper on the use of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in primary care

Aaron Poppleton  1 , Sonia Tsukagoshi  2 , Shlomo Vinker  3 , Francois Heritier  4 , Paul Frappé  5 , Fabian Dupont  6 , Peter Sigmund  7 , Mihai Iacob  8 , Josep Vilaseca  9 , Mehmet Ungan  10 , Camilla Aakjær Andersen  11 , Thomas Frese  12   13 , David Halata  14
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World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of General Practitioners and Family Physicians (WONCA) Europe position paper on the use of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in primary care

Aaron Poppleton et al. Prim Health Care Res Dev. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Medicine; point of care; position statement; primary care, family; ultrasound.

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