Quantitative Approach to Quality Review of Prenatal Ultrasound Examinations: Fetal Biometry.

ABSTRACT: Background/Objectives: To evaluate the quality of an ultrasound practice, both large-scale and focused audits are recommended by professional organizations, but such audits can be time-consuming, inefficient, and expensive. Our objective was to develop a time-efficient, quantitative, objective, large-scale method to evaluate fetal biometry measurements for an entire practice, combined with a process for focused image review for personnel whose measurements are outliers. Methods: Ultrasound exam data for a full year are exported from commercial ultrasound reporting software to a statistical package. Fetal biometry measurements are converted to z-scores to standardize across gestational ages. For a large-scale audit, sonographer mean z-scores are compared using analysis of vari

SUBMITTER: Combs CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11355637 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature