Guidance

AAA screening: ultrasound image quality guidance

Guidance for screeners, clinical skills trainers (CST) and internal quality assurance (IQA) leads on specific aspects of image quality and image QA review.

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This document includes information on factors affecting image quality, categories of image quality and capturing and reviewing images.

Updates to this page

Published 9 July 2020
Last updated 22 July 2025 show all updates
  1. Replaced Figure 5a

  2. Re-worded info and used new images. Added new guidance for CSTs/IQA to address difficulty in accurately measuring aortic diameter.

  3. Added clarification that publication was previously published by Public Health England.

  4. First published.

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