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Hospitals increasingly rely on interventional radiology (IR) to perform procedures such as thoracenteses and paracenteses. However, greater reliance on IR may delay procedure times and lengthen hospital stays compared to performing procedures at the bedside. Could hospitalist medicine procedure service (HMPS) teams with limited ultrasound experience resolve these problems?
Researchers retrospectively studied procedural efficiency and patient outcomes before and after HMPS implementation in a hospital system. Thirteen hospitalists, half with no prior ultrasound or procedural experience, completed a 16-week ultrasound focused procedural training program. A total of 920 propensity-matched patients underwent thoracentesis or paracentesis,…