Antenatal Sonography Toolkit (AST)

As sonographers working in the NHS, we recognised that the current methods for evaluating growth scan accuracy were insufficient. There were many unanswered questions surrounding current performance levels and how accuracy could be improved. We believed there must be a better way to use the vast amounts of data we routinely collect during patient care to create a useful evaluation tool.

The Antenatal Sonography Toolkit (AST) is designed to help teams assess growth scan accuracy at both departmental and individual clinician levels. Our vision is for the AST to establish a new, more effective, and clinically useful national benchmark for growth scan accuracy.

The applications of the AST are far-reaching—from determining departmental and individual sonographer performance levels and identifying areas for improvement through audit reporting, to using its analysis tools to explore inequalities in care or measure the impact of quality improvement (QI) initiatives.

The AST has been developed using our unique design philosophy. We apply advanced statistical modelling and recent technological advances to measure accuracy while controlling for factors that affect comparisons between individuals or Trusts. At the same time, the reports and analysis tools are designed to be intuitive and user-friendly for clinicians with varying levels of statistical and mathematical knowledge.

To find our more about the AST visit our website.

To purchase the AST contact emily@decisiondata.org.uk