Organisation and practice of radiological ultrasound in Europe: a survey by the ESR Working Group on Ultrasound

Table 2 Characteristics of the hospitals in which the radiology department performs more than 20,000 US examinations/year (nationality, presence/absence of teaching duties, number of inpatients, number of US machines available, ratio between number of US examinations performed by non-radiology specialists vs. radiologists)

US exams/year	Nationality	Teaching duties	No. beds in hospital	No. US machines	US done by non-radiologists/US done by radiologists
47,441	ES	Yes	>1,000	10-20	49/51
45,000	LT	Yes	>1,000	<10	50/50
41,834	DE	Yes	>1,000	<10	34/66
41,172	HU	Yes	>1,000	10-20	10/90
30,000	ES	Yes	400-1,000	<10	20/80
27,000	RO	Yes	>1,000	10-20	15/85
25,000	IT	Yes	400-1,000	<10	10/90
22,851	IT	Yes	>1,000	10-20	40/60
22,000	DE	Yes	>1,000	<10	70/30
22,000	ES	Yes	400-1,000	10-20	20/80
21,000	UK	Yes	>1,000	<10	80/20