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ReviewEchocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.)2019

A practical guide to graphic communication for quality assurance, education, and patient care in echocardiography.

Gerald I Cohen

Open access · hybridAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 26% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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.

2 · The registry

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Gerald I CohenDepartment of Cardiology, Ascension St. John Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8261-0395
St. John Hospital & Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Graphic communication (GC) is useful for continuous quality improvement (CQI), education, and patient care when in-person discussion is not possible because of geographic and schedule constraints. In echocardiography, these constraints can be mitigated by (a) capturing screenshots and device photos or videos and sharing them by email or text message, (b) simultaneous viewing of images on digital displays, and (c) broadcasting the study real time during acquisition to other mobile or stationary devices. Screenshots are useful for CQI and education and can be acquired, annotated, and shared with minimal impact on the flow of clinical echo interpretation. Providers at different locations can employ GC for shared clinical decision making by viewing echo studies from the same server, video conferencing or accessing real-time broadcast from a device. Which GC tool is selected is determined by its ease of use, the provider's goals and whether immediate image review is needed.

Indexed as

EchocardiographyPatient CareQuality Assurance, Health CareRadiology Information SystemsUser-Computer InterfaceHumansTelemedicinecontinuous quality improvementechocardiographyinformaticsquality assurancetelemedicine

Identifiers

PMID31541574
PMCPMC6856834
OpenAlexW2973679599

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Registered trials

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