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ArticleAtencion primaria

[Usefulness and reliability of point of care ultrasound in Family Medicine: Focused ultrasound in neck and emergency].

José Antonio Tarrazo Suárez, José Manuel Morales Cano, Jesús Pujol Salud, Ignacio Manuel Sánchez Barrancos, Santiago Diaz Sánchez, Laura Conangla Ferrín

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Article in Atencion primaria. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 39% of its field
1 · What the graph read from 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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

José Antonio Tarrazo SuárezMedicina Familiar y Comunitaria; Grupo de Trabajo de Ecografía, Sociedad Española de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria; Centro de Salud Siero-Sariego, Servicio Asturiano de Salud, Pola de Siero, Asturias, España.
José Manuel Morales CanoMedicina Familiar y Comunitaria; Grupo de Trabajo de Ecografía, Sociedad Española de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria; Centro de Salud Ciudad Real 2, Servicio de Salud de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, España.
Jesús Pujol SaludMedicina Familiar y Comunitaria; Grupo de Trabajo de Ecografía, Sociedad Española de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria; Centro de Atención Primaria Balaguer, Instituto Catalán de Salud, Balaguer, Lleida, España.
Ignacio Manuel Sánchez BarrancosMedicina Familiar y Comunitaria; Grupo de Trabajo de Ecografía, Sociedad Española de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria; Consultorio de Membrilla, Centro de Salud Manzanares 2, Servicio de Salud de Castilla-La Mancha, Membrilla, Ciudad Real, España. Electronic address: imanuels@sescam.jccm.es.
Santiago Diaz SánchezMedicina Familiar y Comunitaria; Grupo de Trabajo de Ecografía, Sociedad Española de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria; Centro de Salud Pintores de Parla, Servicio Madrileño de Salud, Parla, Madrid. España.
Laura Conangla FerrínMedicina Familiar y Comunitaria; Grupo de Trabajo de Ecografía, Sociedad Española de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria; Centro de Atención Primaria Badalona-2, Centre Dalt la Vila, Instituto Catalán de Salud, Badalona, Barcelona, España.
Sociedad Española de Medicina Interna · ESSociedad Andaluza de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria · ESMadrid Health Service · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ultrasound is a very useful tool for diagnosis and to handle a great sort of daily affaires. The family Doctor, as general specialist, must be competent to carry out almost all kind of wealthy situations that can potentially affect to his population. Because of that, with this tool in his hand, the Doctor can get a higher level of quality in the efficiency of the assistant procedure. This is the last paper of a serial dedicated to show the different applications of clinical ultrasound, in which most of them have been reviewed, such as abdominal, nephrourological, musculoskeletal, cardiac or pulmonary focused ultrasound. We want to finalize with scenarios like neck pathology or applications in urgencies in which we can provide the definitive data to get the right diagnosis orientation, the clinic use, or even patient live, such as the patient under deep vein thrombosis in lower members, thoracoabdominal trauma, hemodynamic compromise situation or cardiac arrest.

Indexed as

EmergenciesFamily PracticePoint-of-Care SystemsUltrasonographyHumansNeckReproducibility of ResultsThyroid DiseasesEcografía clínicaFamily practiceFiabilidadMedicina familiarPoint of care ultrasoundReliabilityUsefulnessUtilidad

Identifiers

PMID31101376
PMCPMC6836943
OpenAlexW2946328655

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