Using Quality Improvement Methodology to Standardize Doppler Acquisition in a Pediatric Cardiology Echocardiography Laboratory

Doppler echocardiography in modern cardiology.

Implementing a Continuous Quality Improvement Program in a High-Volume Clinical Echocardiography Laboratory

The last 2 decades have witnessed an enormous growth in the use of cardiovascular imaging, in particular echocardiography, for the evaluation of cardiovascular disease. Although recent national efforts have been directed at evaluating the appropriateness of imaging utilization, the quality in imaging and its effect on health outcomes in echocardiography have been less vigorously evaluated. Imag...

Quality improvement in pediatric care

We often overlook the importance of several safety issues such as identification of patients, timeout procedure, hand hygiene, handoff communication, and many others. This ignorance, along with many other issues, leads to medical error being ranked as a third leading cause of death in the U.S. Consequently, quality improvement (QI) has become one of the major subjects in healthcare despite a re...

Doppler Tissue Echocardiography and Electrocardiography in Children with Celiac Disease Compared to Controls

Background Celiac disease (CD) is an autoimmune mediated gluten sensitive enteropathy and characterized by a wide range of clinical manifestations. The study aimed to compare Doppler tissue echocardiography findings between children with celiac disease and healthy children. Materials and Methods This case-control study was performed on 186 celiac and healthy children aged 6- 19 years.  Celiac d...

Regional implementation of a pediatric cardiology chest pain guideline using SCAMPs methodology.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Chest pain is a complaint for which children are frequently evaluated. Cardiac causes are rarely found despite expenditure of considerable time and resources. We describe validation throughout New England of a clinical guideline for cost-effective evaluation of pediatric patients first seen by a cardiologist for chest pain using a unique methodology termed the Standard...