2020
Implications of Abnormal Exercise Electrocardiography With Normal Stress Echocardiography
Daubert MA, Sivak J, Dunning A, Douglas PS, Coyne B, Wang TY, Mark DB, Velazquez EJ. Implications of Abnormal Exercise Electrocardiography With Normal Stress Echocardiography. JAMA Internal Medicine 2020, 180: 494-502. PMID: 31985749, PMCID: PMC6990669, DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.6958.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNormal stress echocardiographyComposite end pointStress echoExercise electrocardiographyStress echocardiographyMyocardial infarctionDownstream testingEnd pointDuke University Medical CenterExercise stress echoNegative exercise ECGStress ECG findingsAdverse cardiac eventsIncremental prognostic valueObservational cohort studyAdverse clinical eventsCoronary artery diseaseIndividual adverse eventsPopulation of patientsUniversity Medical CenterImaging resultsCoronary revascularizationAdverse eventsCardiac eventsCohort study
2018
Crowdsourcing consensus: proposal of a novel method for assessing accuracy in echocardiography interpretation
Minter S, Armour A, Tinnemore A, Strub K, Crowley AL, Bloomfield GS, Alexander JH, Douglas PS, Kisslo JA, Velazquez EJ, Samad Z. Crowdsourcing consensus: proposal of a novel method for assessing accuracy in echocardiography interpretation. The International Journal Of Cardiovascular Imaging 2018, 34: 1725-1730. PMID: 30128849, DOI: 10.1007/s10554-018-1389-y.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsStress echocardiography studyObstructive coronary diseaseGold standardWall motion abnormalitiesCoronary angiography dataCoronary diseaseStress echocardiographyEchocardiography studyHard outcomesMotion abnormalitiesStress echoSurvey participants' responsesClinical readsEchocardiographic interpretationImperfect gold standardIndependent consensusParticipants' responsesEchocardiographic imagesAngiography dataEchocardiography interpretationValidation surveyParticipantsEchocardiographyConsensusFirst survey