Routine disclosure statements about ultrasound examinations during Covid‐19 pandemic are unhelpful and should be avoided

Abstract

Various routine disclosure statements relating to the performance of ultrasound (US) during the COVID-19 pandemic are finding their way into radiology reports.These statements usually suggest that US examinations during the pandemic, or on a COVID-19 positive patient, are somehow limited and urge the clinicians to reflect on these considerations when accepting radiology reports. However, such disclosure statements are generally unhelpful to clinicians and are not consistent with the realities of current clinical US practice. This article provides a critique of these disclosure statements and concludes by discouraging sonographers and radiologists from making such statements as a routine part of their clinical ultrasound reports.