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- Title
A Clinician's Guide to the Implementation of Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) in the Outpatient Practice.
- Authors
Overgaard, Joshua; Thilagar, Bright P.; Bhuiyan, Mohammed Nadir
- Abstract
Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is a valuable clinical tool used at the patient bedside to rapidly assess a wide variety of symptoms and problems which would otherwise take hours or even days. Though it has become the standard of care in Emergency Medicine and is becoming so in hospital internal medicine, less uptake has been appreciated in the outpatient setting despite reported interest from clinicians practicing there. A number of common barriers have been cited to explain this gap in use, which usually include access to equipment, mentorship, and time. In this review we present a proposed framework for clinicians who have an interest in implementing POCUS in their outpatient practice which we hope can mitigate some of these barriers and provide a more streamlined pathway to their desired goals.
- Subjects
CLINICAL medicine; MEDICAL information storage &; retrieval systems; HEALTH services accessibility; JOB qualifications; DOCUMENTATION; HUMAN services programs; OUTPATIENT services in hospitals; HEALTH insurance reimbursement; ENDOWMENTS; OUTPATIENT medical care; PRIMARY health care; LEADERSHIP; ULTRASONIC imaging; MENTORING; EMERGENCY medicine; CONCEPTUAL structures; MEDICAL coding; POINT-of-care testing; PHYSICIANS; NEEDS assessment; STAKEHOLDER analysis; SOFTWARE architecture; QUALITY assurance; EQUIPMENT &; supplies; TIME; HEALTH care teams
- Publication
Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 2024, p1
- ISSN
2150-1319
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/21501319241255576