Introduction Developing and implementing a quality assurance (QA) program for echocardiography is a challenge. Since many aspects of echocardiography are subjective or qualitative, meaningful assessment of ‘quality’ can be difficult
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The Echocardiography Quality Framework: a comprehensive, patient-centered approach to quality assurance and continuous service improvement
Navroz Masani
A patient-centred model to quality assure outputs from an echocardiography department: consensus guidance from the British Society of Echocardiography
Thomas E Ingram, Steph Baker, Jane Allen, Sarah Ritzmann, Nina Bual, Laura Duffy, Chris Ellis, Karina Bunting, Noel Black, Marcus Peck, Sandeep S Hothi, Vishal Sharma, Keith Pearce, Richard P Steeds, Navroz Masani, and the British Society of Echocardiography Clinical Standards and Departmental Accreditation Committees
inter-study variability of echocardiography is often significant ( 4 ). This variation and the overall accuracy of studies and their accompanying reports can potentially be improved by a robust quality assurance (QA) process within echocardiographic
The evolution from cardiac physiologists to clinical scientists in the UK: a guide to attaining equivalence
Brian Campbell, Shaun Robinson, and Bushra Rana
Reflective log Multi-source feedback or feedback from appraisal/1-1 Individual and department quality assurance (QA) or audit Creation of and evidence of adherence to departmental/national SOPs and guidelines Description of team
Safety and efficacy of physiologist-led dobutamine stress echocardiography
Keith Pearce and John Chambers
quality assurance including audits as performed by Ntoskas et al . ( 2 ). It is not clear why a physiologist/scientist should not be at least as able as a cardiologist to undertake this training. This misapprehension may arise from a difference in
British Society of Echocardiography Departmental Accreditation Standards 2019 with input from the Intensive Care Society
Sarah Ritzmann, Stephanie Baker, Marcus Peck, Tom E Ingram, Jane Allen, Laura Duffy, Richard P Steeds, Andrew Houghton, Andrew Elkington, Nina Bual, Robert Huggett, Keith Pearce, Stavros Apostolakis, Khalatabari Afshin, and the British Society of Echocardiography Departmental Accreditation and Clinical Standards Committees with input from the Intensive Care Society
’, ‘healthcare scientist lead’ and ‘quality assurance lead’. 1.3. The medical lead must be trained in clinical cardiology, specialist echocardiography and be registered with the GMC. They must hold individual BSE/EACVI accreditation and set up a system for
What is the minimum change in left ventricular ejection fraction, which can be measured with contrast echocardiography?
Tan Suwatanaviroj, Weimin He, Edith Pituskin, Ian Paterson, Jonathan Choy, and Harald Becher
initiation or to evaluate cardiotoxicity of anticancer drugs. The patients were asked to give written consent to use their anonymized recordings as part of a quality assurance program. Almost 80% of patients studied had breast cancer and were monitored
Paired surveys for patients and physiologists in echocardiography: a single-centre experience
Michael Roshen, Sophia John, Selda Ahmet, Rajiv Amersey, Sandy Gupta, and George Collins
the numbers are similar to comparable patient and sonographer surveys ( 3 , 10 , 11 , 13 ). This may be because quality assurance exercises like this can be ‘ difficult … time consuming … and sometimes contentious ’, as mentioned in the BSE
A minimum dataset for a Level 1 echocardiogram: a guideline protocol from the British Society of Echocardiography
Rakhee Hindocha, David Garry, Nadia Short, Tom E Ingram, Richard P Steeds, Claire L Colebourn, Keith Pearce, Vishal Sharma, and the Accreditation and Education Committees of the British Society of Echocardiography
-of-care echocardiography has been reasonable, the utility of this in clinical practice has been limited, in part, by the lack of integration with echocardiographic departments, a lack of image sharing and archiving, robust quality assurance process and ongoing training and
Measuring and monitoring quality in satellite echo services within critical care: an exploration of best practice
Toby C Thomas and Claire L Colebourn
optimum standards in staffing and training, organisation and equipment and the performance and reporting of studies, but they must also demonstrate a willingness to engage in quality assurance (16) . Quality indicators can be used more actively than
Device closure of secundum atrial septal defect's and the risk of cardiac erosion
J D R Thomson and S A Qureshi
contrast a published survey of experienced implanters within the CCISC consortium (a US-based quality-assurance data submission group), El-Said and Moore found that in the opinion of over two-thirds of respondents, undersized devices which do not straddle
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