{"id":9418,"date":"2025-11-21T14:43:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T14:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/?p=9418"},"modified":"2025-11-24T14:02:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:02:17","slug":"ct-guided-percutaneous-lung-biopsy-self-audit-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/2025\/11\/21\/ct-guided-percutaneous-lung-biopsy-self-audit-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"CT guided percutaneous lung biopsy - self-audit (2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Type of publication:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Audit<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Author(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*Abayaratne, Chulangani<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Citation:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CT-guided percutaneous lung biopsy is a widely practiced interventional radiology procedure for<br>obtaining tissue samples from pulmonary lesions. Regular self-audit of such procedures is good<br>clinical practice and is recommended to ensure high diagnostic adequacy and low complication<br>rates, in line with national benchmarks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the UK, the British Thoracic Society (BTS) and the Royal College of Radiologists (RCR)<br>recommend regular audits to evaluate local diagnostic yield and complication rates and compare<br>them with national standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Self-audit-Abayaratne.pdf\">Link to PDF<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Type of publication: Audit Author(s): *Abayaratne, Chulangani Citation: Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, 2025 Abstract: CT-guided percutaneous lung biopsy is a widely practiced interventional radiology procedure forobtaining tissue samples from pulmonary lesions. Regular self-audit of such procedures is goodclinical<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/2025\/11\/21\/ct-guided-percutaneous-lung-biopsy-self-audit-2025\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CT guided percutaneous lung biopsy - self-audit (2025)<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[1085,995],"class_list":["post-9418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staff-publication","tag-1085","tag-radiology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9422,"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9418\/revisions\/9422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}