Recommendations for Lung Ultrasound in Internal Medicine
Diagnostics (Basel); 10 (8), 2020
Publication year: 2020
A growing amount of evidence prompts us to update the first version of recommendations for
lung ultrasound in internal medicine (POLLUS-IM) that was published in 2018. The recommendations
were established in several stages, consisting of: literature review, assessment of literature data
quality (with the application of QUADAS, QUADAS-2 and GRADE criteria) and expert evaluation
carried out consistently with the modified Delphi method (three rounds of on-line discussions,
followed by a secret ballot by the panel of experts after each completed discussion).