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ArticleJournal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM

POCUS: Is It Time? … And Is There Time?

Stephen T Erickson

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Article in Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM. 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
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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.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Stephen T EricksonFrom the Jefferson Healthcare, 934 Sheridan St., Port Townsend, WA 98368 (STE). serickson@jeffersonhealthcare.org.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is increasingly recognized as an important and useful improvement for bedside clinical care. Its wide adoption is slowed by the time it takes to perform, and the time it takes to learn. This commentary discusses this dilemma, and needed directions in education, technical advancements, and financial workflows for family medicine clinicians to better incorporate POCUS into clinical practice.

Indexed as

Family PracticePoint-of-Care SystemsHumansTime FactorsUltrasonographyFamily MedicinePOCUSPoint-of-Care SystemsTechnologyUltrasonography

Identifiers

PMID41593016
PMCPMC12978792

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