Table 1 Participant Characteristics
From: The unmet demand for point-of-care ultrasound among general pediatricians: a cross-sectional survey
Level of Training | % (n) |
 Pediatric Resident | 26% (25) |
 Attending/Faculty | 74% (73) |
 Total | 100% (98) |
Attending/Faculty characteristics (n = 73)* | % (n) |
 Pediatric hospitalist medicine (inpatient general pediatrics) | 40% (29) |
 Pediatric primary care (outpatient general pediatrics) | 56% (41) |
 Adolescent medicine | 5% (4) |
 Urgent care | 26% (19) |
 Solo or two physician practice | 5% (4) |
 Academic medical center | 42% (31) |
 Community hospital | 23% (17) |
 Federally Qualified Health Center | 26% (19) |
 Group practice or HMO | 41% (30) |
 Rural | 4% (3) |
 Suburban | 26% (19) |
 Urban | 70% (51) |
 Access to POCUS machine - No | 82% (58) |
 Bill for POCUS - Yes | 0% (0) |
 Use POCUS for clinical decisions - Yes | 6% (4) |
 POCUS training in medical school – Yes | 5% (4) |
 POCUS training in residency - Yes | 5% (4) |
Residents (n = 25)* | % (n) |
 Pediatric hospitalist medicine (inpatient general pediatrics) | 44% (11) |
 Pediatric primary care (outpatient general pediatrics) | 56% (14) |
 Procedural pediatric sub-specialty | 8% (2) |
 Adolescent medicine | 4% (1) |
 Urgent care | 36% (9) |
 Non-procedural pediatric sub-specialty | 4% (1) |
 Use POCUS for clinical decisions - Yes | 52% (13) |
 POCUS training in medical school – Yes | 32% (8) |
 POCUS training in residency - Yes | 12% (3) |