ArticleJMIR serious games2019
Effect of an Augmented Reality Ultrasound Trainer App on the Motor Skills Needed for a Kidney Ultrasound: Prospective Trial.
Article in JMIR serious games, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Augmented reality in interventional radiology education: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.Sao Paulo medical journal = Revista paulista de medicinaPooled it
- Augmedicine: Ultrasound: Training in ultrasound using XR - a randomized controlled trial.BMC medical education · 2026Trial
- Application of augmented reality technology for obstetrics and gynecology teaching among undergraduates.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- Development and Face and Content Validation of Augmedicine: Ultrasound-An Extended Reality Application for Ultrasound Training.Australasian journal of ultrasound in medicine · 2025Article
- Technical Validation of a Training Workstation for Magnet-Based Ultrasound Guidance of Fine-Needle Punctures.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- How to Play a Game Properly - Enhancing Obstetrics and Gynecology Education through Gamification: A Scoping Review.Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde · 2024Article
- Virtual, Augmented, and Alternate Reality in Medical Education: Socially Distanced but Fully Immersed.ATS scholar · 2021Article
- Current Perspectives on Augmented Reality in Medical Education: Applications, Affordances and Limitations.Advances in medical education and practice · 2021Review
- The ultrasound use of simulators, current view, and perspectives: Requirements and technical aspects (WFUMB state of the art paper).Endoscopic ultrasoundReview
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundMedical education is evolving from "learning by doing" to simulation-based hands-on tutorials.
objectiveThe aim of this prospective 2-armed study was to evaluate a newly developed augmented reality ultrasound app and its effect on educational training and diagnostic accuracy.
methodsWe recruited 66 medical students and, using imaging and measuring a kidney as quality indicators, tested them on the time they needed for these tasks. Both groups used textbooks as preparation; in addition, the study group had access to a virtual ultrasound simulation app for mobile devices.
resultsThere was no significant difference between the study arms regarding age (P=.97), sex (P=.14), and previous ultrasound experience (P=.66). The time needed to complete the kidney measurements also did not differ significantly (P=.26). However, the results of the longitudinal kidney measurements differed significantly between the study and control groups, with larger, more realistic values in the study group (right kidney: study group median 105.3 mm, range 86.1-127.1 mm, control group median 92 mm, range 50.4-112.2 mm; P<.001; left kidney: study group median 100.3 mm, range 81.7-118.6 mm, control group median 85.3 mm, range 48.3-113.4 mm; P<.001). Furthermore, whereas all students of the study group obtained valid measurements, students of the control group did not obtain valid measurements of 1 or both kidneys in 7 cases.
conclusionsThe newly developed augmented reality ultrasound simulator mobile app provides a useful add-on for ultrasound education and training. Our results indicate that medical students' use of the mobile app for training purposes improved the quality of kidney measurements.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.