ArticleEcho research and practice2018
Safety and efficacy of physiologist-led dobutamine stress echocardiography
Article in Echo research and practice, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
What it found
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
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Who cites it
2 citing papers in PubMed.
- Clinical scientist led clinic in adult congenital heart disease - how to do it?Echo research and practice · 2025Review
- Contemporary review of stress echocardiography workforce within the UK: an EVAREST/BSE NSTEP study.Echo research and practice · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Dr Porter in his editorial comment (1) on a physiologist-led stress echo service (2) acknowledges that the service was safe in terms of adverse effects but is concerned that ‘the interpretation of the study was also done by the cardiac physiologist’. He reminds us ‘that the biggest danger associated with dobutamine stress echocardiography is in misinterpreting the data obtained…’.
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Registered trials
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