Multidimensional institutional learning curve of ultrasound-guided percutaneous transthoracic lung biopsy: a cumulative sum analysis with case-mix assessment
Xiubin Tang, Ming Chen, Chunrong Zhong, Xiao Yang · 2026
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Description
Tang, Chen, Zhong, and Yang chart how one hospital team improved at a lung sampling method over its first 120 cases. The method uses live sound-wave images to guide a needle through the chest wall into lung spots near the surface. New teams must learn speed, aim, and safety together.
The team tracked three things case by case: how long each biopsy took, how often the needle had to be steered again, and how often problems arose. A running-sum method flagged the points where results shifted. The authors also checked whether hard cases, rather than growing skill, explained the shifts. Their account gives new centers a map of what the learning phase looks like and how long each part of it may last.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Xiubin Tang, Ming Chen, Chunrong Zhong, Xiao Yang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 42 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |