Clinical measurements obtained from point-of-care ultrasound images to assess acquisition skills.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Current methods of assessing competence in acquiring point-of-care ultrasound images are inadequate. They rely upon cumbersome rating systems that do not depend on the actual outcome measured and lack evidence of validity. We describe a new method that uses a rigorous statistical model to assess performance of individual trainees based on the actual task, image acquisition. Measurements obtained from the images acquired (the actual desired outcome) are themselves used to validate effective training and competence acquiring ultrasound images. We enrolled a convenience sample of 21 spontaneously breathing adults from a general medicine ward. In random order, two trainees (A and B) and an instructor contemporaneously acquired point-of-care ultrasound images of the inferior

SUBMITTER: Lucas BP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6638581 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature