Interpretation of remotely downloaded pocket-size cardiac ultrasound images on a web-enabled smartphone: Validation against workstation evaluation

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1325-1330

  Choi, Brian G ^a   Mukherjee, Monica ^a   Dala, Praveen ^c   Young, Heather A ^b   Tracy, Cynthia M ^a   Katz, Richard J ^a   Lewis, Jannet F ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MVisum Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Pocket size ultrasound; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOLOGIST; CARDIOMYOPATHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART PALPITATION; HONDURAS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERNET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MOBILE PHONE; POCKET SIZE ULTRASOUND; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SYNCOPE; SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; TELEMEDICINE; THORAX PAIN; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND; VALIDATION STUDY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 81855226416     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: 10976795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2011.08.007     Document Type: Article

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