Quality Management of Ultrasound Surveillance for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Under the Korean National Cancer Screening Program.

Moon-Hyung ChoiSeung Eun JungJoon-Il ChoiWoo Kyoung JeongHyun Cheol KimYongsoo KimYeol KimBoyoung Park

Published in: Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (2017)

The quality of liver US for hepatocellular carcinoma screening remains suboptimal. Education for physicians who perform liver US examinations is unsatisfactory in Korea. We should make an effort to improve the quality of liver US and teach basic US techniques to physicians.

Keyphrases

quality improvement
primary care
healthcare
magnetic resonance imaging
public health
computed tomography
ultrasound guided
contrast enhanced ultrasound