Bedside Clinical Ultrasound Performed by Family Physicians in Adult Patients With Abdominal Pain in a Hospital Emergency Department: Protocol for a Pilot Quasi-Experimental Study

Laura Carbajo Martín   ^{1, 2, 3} , BChD ;   Ignacio Párraga-Martínez   ^{4, 5, 6} , BChD ;   Luis M Beltrán-Romero   ^{7, 8} , BChD ;   Máximo Bernabeu Wittel   ^{7, 8} , BChD ;   Northern Huelva Health Management Area Research Group   ⁹

¹ Emergency Department, Northern Huelva Health Management Area, Minas de Riotinto, Spain

² Emergency and Continuous Care Group of the Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine, Barcelona, Spain

³ Spanish Red Cross Nursing School, University of Seville, Sevilla, Spain

⁴ Health Center Zone VIII Albacete, Integrated Care Management Albacete, Albacete, Spain

⁵ Preventive Medicine and Public and Community Health, Faculty of Medicine of Albacete, University of Albacete, Albacete, Spain

⁶ IDISCAM, Castilla-La Mancha Institute of Health Research, Albacete, Spain

⁷ Internal Medicine Department, Virgen del Rocío University Hospital, Sevilla, Spain

⁸ Department of Medicine, University of Seville, Sevilla, Spain

⁹ See Acknowledgments