Meghan K Herbst, Graeme Rosenberg, Brock Daniels, Cary P Gross, Dinesh Singh, Annette M Molinaro, Seth Luty, Christopher L Moore
STUDY OBJECTIVE: Hydronephrosis is readily visible on ultrasonography and is a strong predictor of ureteral stones, but ultrasonography is a user-dependent technology and the test characteristics of clinician-performed ultrasonography for hydronephrosis are incompletely characterized, as is the effect of ultrasound fellowship training on predictive accuracy. We seek to determine the test characteristics of ultrasonography for detecting hydronephrosis when performed by clinicians with a wide range of experience under conditions of direct patient care...
September 2014: Annals of Emergency Medicine