the team (physiologists, cardiologists, healthcare assistants, clerical staff, others) could be engaged in some quality improvement activity. If successful, this could help foster an ‘improvement culture’ within a department, benefiting team members
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The Echocardiography Quality Framework: a comprehensive, patient-centered approach to quality assurance and continuous service improvement
Navroz Masani
Impact of image quality on reliability of the measurements of left ventricular systolic function and global longitudinal strain in 2D echocardiography
Yasufumi Nagata, Yuichiro Kado, Takeshi Onoue, Kyoko Otani, Akemi Nakazono, Yutaka Otsuji, and Masaaki Takeuchi
-generation ultrasound machines from the same company; (2) to examine whether examiner with different levels of the experience could obtain the same amount of image quality improvement between two examinations and (3) to assess whether image quality would affect the
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
physiologist feedback across successive TTE studies for the purposes of research and quality improvement is also novel. The aim of this study is to design, implement and publish the results of the first survey of patients and physiologists in an outpatient TTE
Stress echocardiography in contemporary clinical cardiology: practical considerations and accreditation
Benoy N Shah, Anita MacNab, Jane Lynch, Reinette Hampson, Roxy Senior, and Richard P Steeds
effective is the improvement in image quality following contrast administration that excellent feasibility, accuracy and effectiveness in clinical triaging of even significantly obese patients undergoing stress echocardiography was recently reported in the
Challenges and opportunity in the era of quantitative echocardiography
Cheuk-Man Yu
robust enough with small margin of variabilities before they can be widely accepted for clinical usage. Conduction of high quality clinical trials While the echo tools are getting more and more complicated, the concept of using new quantitative
The heart failure epidemic: a UK perspective
Martin R Cowie
that is currently done in hospital. This is a challenging time financially in which to enact such changes. Guidelines and Quality Standards from NICE Thankfully, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has issued clear
Measuring and monitoring quality in satellite echo services within critical care: an exploration of best practice
Toby C Thomas and Claire L Colebourn
simply to indicate DA. For instance, indicator results may be audited to inform local quality-improvement programs by identifying weaknesses in a clinical process and prioritising areas for improvement (20) . The completion of audit cycles based on
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
departmental meetings with a minimum of five cases reviewed per meeting Green: Departments must also provide evidence that the whole team is involved in the process, and provide evidence of feedback and quality improvement 1B Echo reports Amber
Impact of mitral geometry and global afterload on improvement of mitral regurgitation after trans-catheter aortic valve implantation
Y Tayyareci, R Dworakowski, P Kogoj, J Reiken, C Kenny, P MacCarthy, O Wendler, and M J Monaghan
predict MR improvement after SAVR. The mechanisms underlying MR improvement after SAVR have not been well established. A decrease in left ventricular (LV) systolic pressure, which directly reduces MR, seems to be the strongest hypothesis. Moreover, LV
Left ventricular speckle tracking echocardiographic evaluation before and after TAVI
Vasiliki Tsampasian, Vasileios Panoulas, Richard J Jabbour, Neil Ruparelia, Iqbal S Malik, Nearchos Hadjiloizou, Angela Frame MSc, Sayan Sen, Nilesh Sutaria, Ghada W Mikhail, and Petros Nihoyannopoulos
), intermediate ( 4 , 5 , 6 ) and low ( 7 , 8 ) surgical risk. With the advantages of faster recovery and reduced peri-operative mortality, TAVI offers a significant improvement in LV haemodynamics, symptoms and prognosis in those groups ( 8 ). In the current
