Identifying and Overcoming Barriers to Resident Use of Point-of-Care Ultrasound.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Emergency medicine residency programs have rigorous point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) curricula. However, this training does not always readily translate to routine use in clinical decision-making. This study sought to identify and overcome barriers that could prevent resident physicians from performing POCUS during clinical shifts.

Methods

This was a two-step process improvement study. First, a survey was deployed to all residents of a three-year academic residency program to identify barriers to clinical use of POCUS. This survey identified the perceived lack of a uniform documenting protocol as the most important barrier to performing POCUS on shift. Second, as an intervention to overcome this barrier, a streamlined documentation protocol was developed and pre

SUBMITTER: Schnittke N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6860390 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature