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General Practitioners' Perspectives on Appropriate Use of Ultrasonography in Primary Care in Denmark: A Multistage Mixed Methods Study.
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- A core curriculum of point-of-care ultrasound examinations for frontline physicians in primary care: results from a European Delphi study.Ultraschall in der Medizin (Stuttgart, Germany : 1980) · 2026Article
- Unseen and untreated: implementing sarcopenic obesity care in Nordic general practice.Frontiers in aging · 2026Article
- Does point-of-care ultrasound examination by the general practitioner lead to inappropriate care? A follow-up study.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2025Observational
- General practitioners' scanning competence following tailored ultrasound training: a hybrid effectiveness-implementation study.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- 'Shades of grey': a focus group study on diagnostic uncertainty among general practitioners using point-of-care ultrasound.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2025Article
- Continuing professional development for primary care physicians: a pre-post study on lung point-of-care ultrasound curriculum.BMC medical education · 2024Article
- World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of General Practitioners and Family Physicians (WONCA) Europe position paper on the use of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in primary care.Primary health care research & development · 2024Review
- Factors affecting point-of-care ultrasound implementation in general practice: a survey in Danish primary care clinics.BMJ open · 2023Article
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7 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
purposeResearchers aimed to describe general practitioners' understanding of appropriate ultrasound use, to record actual scanning practices of early adopters in general practice, and to identify differences between attitudes and actual practice via a mixed methods analysis.
methodsThis study was part of a larger multistage mixed methods research framework exploring the use of ultrasound in general practice in Denmark. We used an exploratory sequential approach in the data collection with initial qualitative findings from an interview study applied to building a quantitative questionnaire utilized in a cohort study. In addition, we merged the qualitative and quantitative data using joint display analysis to compare and contrast the results from the 2 stages of the study.
resultsIn the interviews, general practitioners described appropriate ultrasound use as point-of-care examinations with a clear purpose and limited to predefined specific conditions within delimited anatomic areas. They stated that general practitioners should receive formalized ultrasound training and be skilled in the examinations they perform. In the cohort study, general practitioners performed ultrasound examinations of anatomic areas with or without a defined clinical suspicion. Some performed ultrasound examinations for which they had no previous training or skills.
conclusionsWe found a difference between the ideas about the appropriate uses for ultrasound in general practice and the actual use by early adopters in clinical practice. Our findings suggest a need for evidence-based guidelines to support general practitioners in choosing which examinations to perform and strategies for developing and maintaining scanning competency.
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