%0 Journal Article
%T Usefulness of ultrasound in clinical decision-making in rheumatology clinical practice: A single-center longitudinal study.
%A Serrano-Warleta M
%A Palomeque-Vargas A
%A Manzo R
%A Blanco-Cáceres B
%A Vazquez-Díaz M
%A Guillen-Astete C
%J Reumatol Clin (Engl Ed)
%V 20
%N 3
%D 2024 Mar 1
%M 38431489
暂无%R 10.1016/j.reumae.2024.02.004
%X <B>OBJECTIVE: </B>The purpose of the present study is to identify the extent to which it affects clinical decisions in a single-centre observational retrospective study.<BR><B>METHODS: </B>The results of 801 requests and 1174 consecutive individual ultrasound examinations performed over 10 months were analysed.<BR><B>RESULTS: </B>The most frequent indication was diagnostic assistance (39%) followed by assessment of inflammatory activity (34%). By topography, the hand was the most frequently studied region (51%), followed by the foot (18.1%). Of all requests, 67% had an impact on decision-making. The impact on clinical decision-making was associated with a shorter waiting time for the evaluation of the results, being the greatest in those ultrasound scans performed on demand on the same day of the request. In 73% of bilateral ultrasound studies, findings in one of the joints exemplified the overall result reported.<BR><B>CONCLUSIONS: </B>Rheumatological musculoskeletal ultrasound has proven to be a useful decision-making technique, the greater the impact of which is seen the shorter the waiting time before it is performed.