Association Between Offering Limited Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction Echocardiograms and Overall Use of Echocardiography

Alexander T Sandhu; Justin Parizo; Narges Moradi-Ragheb; Paul A Heidenreich

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.3317

Association Between Offering Limited Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction Echocardiograms and Overall Use of Echocardiography

JAMA Intern Med. 2018 Sep 1;178(9):1270-1272. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.3317.

Authors

Alexander T Sandhu¹, Justin Parizo¹, Narges Moradi-Ragheb², Paul A Heidenreich^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
² Division of Cardiology, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California.

Abstract

This study examines the use of a limited transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE) that evaluates only the left ventricle and its association with overall use of TTE.

Publication types

Multicenter Study

MeSH terms

Echocardiography / statistics & numerical data*
Heart Ventricles / diagnostic imaging*
Humans
Outpatients / statistics & numerical data*
Retrospective Studies
Stroke Volume / physiology*
Ventricular Function, Left / physiology*