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ArticleAcademic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine2022

Establishing the international research priorities for pediatric emergency medicine point-of-care ultrasound: A modified Delphi study.

Peter J Snelling, Allan E Shefrin, Matthew M Moake, Kelly R Bergmann, Erika Constantine, J Kate Deanehan, Almaz S Dessie, Marsha A Elkhunovich, Delia L Gold, Aaron E Kornblith and 6 more

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Article in Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06839963 (Validation of the Kinshasa Lung Ultrasound Approach for the Narrowing of Differential Diagnosis in Children Admitted With Acute Respiratory Symptoms in Low-resource Settings), which is not on this map. Cited by 3 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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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.

NCT06839963 completednot on this mapstarted 2025, after this paper: background citation

Validation of the Kinshasa Lung Ultrasound Approach for the Narrowing of Differential Diagnosis in Children Admitted With Acute Respiratory Symptoms in Low-resource Settings

TypeobservationalSponsorUniversity of OxfordRan2025 to 2025Enrolled178ConditionsRespiratory Disease, Children, Only
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors at 15 institutions in 4 countries.

Peter J SnellingDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Gold Coast University Hospital and Griffith University, Southport, Queensland, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-8579-445X
Allan E ShefrinDepartment of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Matthew M MoakeDepartment of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
Kelly R BergmannDepartment of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Children's Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0975-4218
Erika ConstantineDivision of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Hasbro Children's Hospital/Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6682-0763
J Kate DeanehanDivision of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins Children's Center Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Almaz S DessieDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7793-9003
Marsha A ElkhunovichDivision of Emergency and Transport Medicine, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Delia L GoldDivision of Emergency Medicine, Nationwide Children's Hospital and Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9592-8351
Aaron E KornblithDepartment of Emergency Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1344-575X
Margaret Lin-MartoreDepartment of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2427-3404
Benjamin NtiRiley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
Kathryn H PadeDivision of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Rady Children's Hospital San Diego and University of California at San Diego, San Diego, California, USA.
Niccolò ParriDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Meyer University Children's Hospital, Florence, Italy.
Adam SivitzChildren's Hospital of New Jersey, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, New Jersey, USA.
Samuel H F LamSutter Medical Center, Sacramento, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8134-1231
University of California, San Francisco · USBrown University · USChildren's Hospital of Eastern Ontario · CAChildren's Hospital of Los Angeles · USChildren's Minnesota · USColumbia University · USGriffith University · AUIndiana University Health · USJohns Hopkins University · USMedical University of South Carolina · USMeyer Children's Hospital · ITNationwide Children's Hospital · USNewark Beth Israel Medical Center · USRady Children's Hospital-San Diego · USSutter Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe Pediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM) Point-of-care Ultrasound (POCUS) Network (P2Network) was established in 2014 to provide a platform for international collaboration among experts, including multicenter research. The objective of this study was to use expert consensus to identify and prioritize PEM POCUS topics, to inform future collaborative multicenter research.

methodsOnline surveys were administered in a two-stage, modified Delphi study. A steering committee of 16 PEM POCUS experts was identified within the P2Network, with representation from the United States, Canada, Italy, and Australia. We solicited the participation of international PEM POCUS experts through professional society mailing lists, research networks, social media, and "word of mouth." After each round, responses were refined by the steering committee before being reissued to participants to determine the ranking of all the research questions based on means and to identify the high-level consensus topics. The final stage was a modified Hanlon process of prioritization round (HPP), which emphasized relevance, impact, and feasibility.

resultsFifty-four eligible participants (16.6%) provided 191 items to Survey 1 (Round 1). These were refined and consolidated into 52 research questions by the steering committee. These were issued for rating in Survey 2 (Round 2), which had 45 participants. At the completion of Round 2, all questions were ranked with six research questions reaching high-level consensus. Thirty-one research questions with mean ratings above neutral were selected for the HPP round. Highly ranked topics included clinical applications of POCUS to evaluate and manage children with shock, cardiac arrest, thoracoabdominal trauma, suspected cardiac failure, atraumatic limp, and intussusception.

conclusionsThis consensus study has established a research agenda to inform future international multicenter PEM POCUS trials. This study has highlighted the ongoing need for high-quality evidence for PEM POCUS applications to guide clinical practice.

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Emergency MedicinePediatric Emergency MedicineChildDelphi TechniqueHealth Services ResearchHumansPoint-of-Care SystemsUltrasonography

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PMID36043227
PMCPMC9826219
OpenAlexW4293716322

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