Monitoring Personalized Learning Curves for Emergency Ultrasound With Risk-adjusted Learning-curve Cumulative Summation Method.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Ultrasound (US) has been a regular practice in emergency departments for several decades. Thus, train our students to US is of prime interest. Because US image acquisition ability can be very different from a patient to another (depending on image quality), it seems relevant to adapt US learning curves (LCs) to patient image quality using tools based on cumulative summation (CUSUM) as the risk-adjusted LC CUSUM (RLC).

Objectives

The aim of this study was to monitor LC of medical students for the acquisition of abdominal emergency US views and to adapt these curves to patient image quality using RLC.

Methods

We asked medical students to perform abdominal US examinations with the acquisition of 11 views of interest on emergency patients after a learning sessi

SUBMITTER: Peyrony O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6001586 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature