The clinical musculoskeletal ultrasonography: Egyptian guidelines for structured musculoskeletal ultrasound scanning and reporting

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2024年1月25日

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Yasser El Miedany,
Maha El Gaafary,
Mohamed Mortada,
Nouran Abaz,
Waleed Hassan,
Mona Mansour,
Neven Mahmoud Fouda,
Hala Lotfy Fayed,
Radwa Mostafa ELkhouly,
Safaa Mahran,
Hanan S. Abozaid,
Hany M. Ali,
Ahmed Radwan,
Basant Elnady,
Eiman Soliman,
Mohammed Hassan Abu-Zaid

摘要

Background

The aim of this work is to set up the standards for performing musculoskeletal ultrasound scans and reporting as an additional procedure in the rheumatology setting. We used two rounds of the Delphi approach to get the consensus on a musculoskeletal ultrasound reporting.

Results

Fifteen expert panels had completed the two rounds of surveys. After the end of round two, eighteen recommendations distributed upon eight domains were released. The percentage of the agreement on the recommendations was 93.3 to 100 %. All eighteen key questions were answered at the end of the second round with agreement.

Conclusion

A musculoskeletal ultrasound report template has been developed by this study, based on outcomes of a Delphi process, by an international participants’ panel. All domains met the 80% voting threshold set in this work. The reporting template can be used for both clinical research as well as standard practice to provide guidance and standardize the musculoskeletal ultrasound reporting.