ArticleJournal of digital imaging2017
Can an Offsite Expert Remotely Evaluate the Visual Estimation of Ejection Fraction via a Social Network Video Call?
Article in Journal of digital imaging, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02960685 (Can Offsite Expert Accurately Estimate the Ejection Fraction by Watching and Instructing the Onsite Novice Sonographer's Practice Via the Social Network System?), which is not on this map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Can Offsite Expert Accurately Estimate the Ejection Fraction by Watching and Instructing the Onsite Novice Sonographer's Practice Via the Social Network System?
Who cites it
6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Real-Time Remote Tele-Mentored Echocardiography: A Systematic Review.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2020Pooled it
- Real-time Remote Expert-guided Echocardiography by Medical Students.The ultrasound journal · 2023Article
- A practical guide to graphic communication for quality assurance, education, and patient care in echocardiography.Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) · 2019Review
- Initial Experience of the Synchronized, Real-Time, Interactive, Remote Transthoracic Echocardiogram Consultation System in Rural China: Longitudinal Observational Study.JMIR medical informatics · 2019Article
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Abstract
We aimed to investigate whether an offsite expert could effectively evaluate visually estimated ejection fraction (EF) while watching and guiding the echocardiographic procedure of an onsite novice practitioner using a social network video call. Sixty patients presenting to the intensive care unit and requiring echocardiography between October and November 2016 were included. Sixty novice sonographers without any previous experience of echocardiography participated. Prior to the procedure, the onsite cardiologist completed the echocardiography and determined the EF using the modified Simpson's method (reference value). Then, the novice practitioner performed the echocardiography again with the offsite expert's guidance via a social network video call. The EF was visually estimated by the offsite expert while watching the ultrasound video on the smartphone display. Spearman's rank correlation and Bland-Altman plot analysis were conducted to assess the agreement between the two methods. There was excellent agreement between the two methods, with a correlation coefficient of 0.94 (p < 0.001). The Bland-Altman plot showed that the average bias was -3.05, and the limit of agreement (-10.3 to 4.2) was narrow. The offsite expert was able to perform an accurate visual estimation of ejection fraction remotely via a social network video call by mentoring the onsite novice sonographer. ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02960685.
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