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September 19, 2024
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Usefulness of Multi-Organ Point-of-Care Ultrasound as a Complement to the Decision-Making Process in Internal Medicine

Publicated to: Journal of Clinical Medicine. 11 (8): 2256- - 2022-04-01 11(8), DOI: 10.3390/jcm11082256

Authors:

Casado-Lopez, Irene; Tung-Chen, Yale; Torres-Arrese, Marta; Luordo-Tedesco, Davide; Mata-Martinez, Arantzazu; Manuel Casas-Rojo, Jose; Montero-Hernandez, Esther; Garcia de Casasola-Sanchez, Gonzalo
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Affiliations

Hosp Infanta Cristina, Dept Internal Med, Madrid 28981, Spain - Author
Hosp Univ Fdn Alcorcon, Dept Emergency Med, Madrid 28922, Spain - Author
Hosp Univ La Paz, Dept Internal Med, Madrid 28046, Spain - Author
Hosp Univ Puerta Hierro Majadahonda, Dept Internal Med, IDIPHISA, Madrid 28222, Spain - Author
Univ Alfonso X, Dept Med, Madrid 28691, Spain - Author
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Abstract

Accumulated data show the utility of diagnostic multi-organ point-of-care ultrasound (PoCUS) in the assessment of patients admitted to an internal medicine ward. We assessed whether multi-organ PoCUS (lung, cardiac, and abdomen) provides relevant diagnostic and/or therapeutic information in patients admitted for any reason to an internal medicine ward. We conducted a prospective, observational, and single-center study, at a secondary hospital. Multi-organ PoCUS was performed during the first 24 h of admission. The sonographer had access to the patients' medical history, physical examination, and basic complementary tests performed in the Emergency Department (laboratory, X-ray, electrocardiogram). We considered a relevant ultrasound finding if it implied a significant diagnostic and/or therapeutic change. In the second semester of 2019, we enrolled 310 patients, 48.7% were male and the mean age was 70.5 years. Relevant ultrasound findings were detected in 86 patients (27.7%) and in 60 (19.3%) triggered a therapeutic change. These findings were associated with an older age (Mantel-Haenszel chi(2) = 25.6; p < 0.001) and higher degree of dependency (Mantel-Haenszel chi(2) = 5.7; p = 0.017). Multi-organ PoCUS provides relevant diagnostic information, complementing traditional physical examination, and facilitates therapy adjustment, regardless of the cause of admission. Multi-organ PoCUS to be useful need to be systematically integrated into the decision-making process in internal medicine.
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Keywords

Abdominal ultrasounAbdominal ultrasoundDiagnosisDyspneEchocardiographyInternal medicineLung ultrasoundPhysical-examinationPoint-of-care ultrasoundProtocolUltrasonography

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Journal of Clinical Medicine due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2022, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Medicine (Miscellaneous).

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations provided by WoS (ESI, Clarivate), it yields a value for the citation normalization relative to the expected citation rate of: 2.33. This indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 13, 2025)

This information is reinforced by other indicators of the same type, which, although dynamic over time and dependent on the set of average global citations at the time of their calculation, consistently position the work at some point among the top 50% most cited in its field:

  • Weighted Average of Normalized Impact by the Scopus agency: 1.44 (source consulted: FECYT Mar 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2026-04-01, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 17
  • Scopus: 13
  • Google Scholar: 21
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-01:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 30.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 30 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 69.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 105 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: https://repositorio.uam.es/handle/10486/718526
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been TUNG CHEN, YALE.

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