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Can a Tailored Quality Assurance Program Help General Practitioners Maintain POCUS Scanning Competence? A Cohort Study From Denmark

NCT05625646 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 16

Last updated 2025-03-19

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Summary

Testing of a quality assurance program for general practitioners with an online multiple-choice quiz including still-pictures and video sequences of 10 application specific POCUS examinations. Through 15-20 questions, the quiz tests participants (1) knowledge about indications for performing POCUS examinations, (2) applied knowledge of ultrasound equipment, (3) ability to optimize images, (4) ability to recognize and present structures, (5) ability to interpret images, (6) ability to describe and document findings and (7) medical decision-making. Following the quiz, the participants are offered guidance to improve their performance.

Conditions

  • Point-of-care Ultrasonography (POCUS)

Interventions

OTHER

quality assurance program

The program consists of an online quiz using a multiple choice questionnaire (MCQ) design. The participants are expected to complete the online MCQ at 3, 6, 9, and 12 months following baseline. The MCQ includes still-pictures and video sequences of the 10 application specific POCUS examinations from the course curriculum. Through 15-20 questions, the quiz tests the OSAUS dimentions Each question has four possible answers of which up to three answers are correct. Each MCQ will have ten questions pertaining to pathologies within the ten applications of the curriculum. Further, there will be five to ten questions relating to image recognition, image optimisation, ultrasound artifacts. Once each MCQ is finalized, the participating GP's will receive feed-back on the answers with suggestions for improvement and guidance toward continuing self-directed learning.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Aalborg University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Janus L Thomsen, Professor · Aalborg University

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-11-15
Primary Completion
2023-11-30
Completion
2024-01-25

Countries

  • Denmark

Study Locations

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