Pre-assessment questionnaire

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Salutation(Required)

Profession(Required)

Name(Required)

First Last

Country(Required)

Country

Instituition(Required)

Email(Required)

1. Years of practicing rheumatology after medical training(Required)

1-3 years

3-6 years

6-10 years

>10 years

2. Years of acquiring the skill in musculoskeletal ultrasound(Required)

<1 year

1-3 year

3-6 year

6-10 year

>10 year

3. Number of rheumatology ultrasound courses attended(Required)

4. Level of rheumatology ultrasound achieved(Required)

Basic

Intermediate

Advance

Trainer

5. Format of ultrasound courses attended(Required)

EULAR or EULAR Endorsed Course

International Course

National musculoskeletal / rheumatology ultrasound course

Sonoanatomy

Disease specific e.g. rheumatoid arthritis, vasculitis etc

Only face-to-face course

Only online course

Both (online and face-to-face) courses

Other:

Other:(Required)

6. Availability of ultrasound in the clinic for point of care use(Required)

Yes

7. Number of ultrasound scans performed per month(Required)

Current use of Ultrasound

1. Do you currently use ultrasound for assessment in your patients?(Required)

Yes

2. Do you perform(Required)

a. MSK US

b. Vascular US

c. Both MSK and vascular US

3. What is the main reason you have requested or performed ultrasound?(Required)

a) Confirming or disproving clinical assessment findings

b) For diagnostic purposes for synovitis, tenosynovitis, enthesitis or any other inflammatory findings to confirm /exclude an inflammatory rheumatology condition

c) For diagnostic purposes to confirm/exclude the diagnosis in suspected GCA or large vessel vasculitis

d) For diagnostic and assessment purposes in patients presenting with polymyalgia

e) To assess disease activity in managing clinical remission (please state which diseases)

f) To assess disease activity to help with determining concomitant non-inflammatory causes before changing therapy (such as osteoarthritis or fibromyalgia)

g) To assess disease activity to aid patient education (such as to improve medication adherence or compliance)

h) For guiding injections

i) Other (please specify)

Other(Required)

4. Do you use ultrasound in the following areas?(Required)

a) As part of clinical care in a separate dedicated ultrasound clinic

b) At the bedside or during ward rounds as point of care ultrasound

c) For teaching

d) For research

e) Other (please state)

Other 4(Required)

5. What are the perceived barriers in using ultrasound more frequently in practice?(Required)

a) Time constraints in clinical practice

b) Cost of ultrasound machine

c) Cost of sonographer time

d) Lack of experience in ultrasound

e) Lack of training in ultrasound

f) Other:

Other 5(Required)

6. Do you discuss ultrasound imaging findings with patients?(Required)

Yes

7. Do you give a report/document about your findings to

a. The patient

b. other doctors

c. regulatory body (hospital etc)

8. Does ultrasound help you with diagnosis and management in terms of adding to post-test probability ( in addition to the history, clinical examination and laboratory findings)?(Required)

Yes

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Current use of Ultrasound