Z-score for benchmarking reader competence in a central ECG laboratory

Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 19-25

  Panicker, Gopi Krishna ^a   Karnad, Dilip R ^a   Joshi, Rajesh ^a   Shetty, Sheetal ^a   Vyas, Niraj ^a   Kothari, Snehal ^a   Narula, Dhiraj ^a  

^a IQVIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug induced QT prolongation; Electrocardiography; Phase I studies; Quality assurance; Reader variability; Thorough QT QTc study

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LABORATORY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL EXPERT; MEDICAL STUDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT INTERVAL; QT PROLONGATION; QUALITY CONTROL; READING; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; Z SCORE;

BENCHMARKING; CARDIOLOGY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; LABORATORIES; LONG QT SYNDROME; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 58449108562     PISSN: 1082720X     EISSN: 1542474X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-474X.2008.00269.x     Document Type: Article

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