Quality control of B-lines analysis in stress Echo 2020

• Autor(a) principal: Scali, Maria Chiara
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Ciampi, Quirino, Picano, Eugenio, Bossone, Eduardo, Ferrara, Francesco, Citro, Rodolfo, Colonna, Paolo, Costantino, Marco Fabio, Cortigiani, Lauro, D'Andrea, Antonello, Severino, Sergio, Dodi, Claudio, Gaibazzi, Nicola, Galderisi, Maurizio, Barbieri, Andréa, Monte, Ines Paola, Mori, Fabio, Reisenhofer, Barbara, Re, Federica, Rigo, Fausto, Trambaiolo, Paolo, Amor, Miguel, Lowenstein, Jorge, Merlo, Pablo, Daros, Clarissa Borguezan, Pretto, José Luis de Castro e Silva, Miglioranza, Marcelo Haertel, Torres, Marco Antonio Rodrigues, Bellagamba, Clarissa Carmona de Azevedo, Quesada Chaves, Daniel, Simova, Iana, Varga, Albert, Celutkiene, Jelena, Kasprzak, Jaroslaw D., Wierzbowska-Drabik, Karina, Lipiec, Piotr, Weiner-Mik, Paulina, Szymczyk, Ewa, Wdowiak-Okrojek, Katarzyna, Djordjevic-Dikic, Ana, Dekleva, Milica, Stanković, Ivan, Nešković, Aleksandar N., Zagatina, Angela, Di Salvo, Giovanni, Perez, Julio E., Camarozano, Ana Cristina, Corciu, Anca Irina, Boshchenko, Alla A., Lattanzi, Fabio, Cotrim, Carlos Alberto Dias, Fazendas, Paula, Haberka, Maciej, Sobkowic, Bozena, Kosmala, Wojciech, Witkowski, Tomasz G., Gosćiniak, Piotr, Salustri, Alessandro, Rodríguez-Zanella, Hugo, Leal, Luis Ignacio Martin, Nikolic, Alexandra, Gligorova, Suzana, Urluescu, Mǎdǎlina Loredana, Fiorino, Maria Giovanna, Novo, Giuseppina, Preradovic-Kovacevic, Tamara, Ostojić, Miodrag Caslav, Beleslin, Branko, Villari, Bruno, De Nes, Michele, Paterni, Marco, Carpeggiani, Clara, Andreassi, Maria Grazia
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFRGS
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10183/187749
• topic: Certificação; Controle de qualidade; Ecocardiografia sob estresse; Doenças cardiovasculares; Certification; Lung comets; Quality control; Stress echocardiography; Wall motion

Background: The effectiveness trial “Stress echo (SE) 2020” evaluates novel applications of SE in and beyond coronary artery disease. The core protocol also includes 4-site simplified scan of B-lines by lung ultrasound, useful to assess pulmonary congestion. Purpose: To provide web-based upstream quality control and harmonization of B-lines reading criteria. Methods: 60 readers (all previously accredited for regional wall motion, 53 B-lines naive) from 52 centers of 16 countries of SE 2020 network read a set of 20 lung ultrasound video-clips selected by the Pisa lab serving as reference standard, after taking an obligatory web-based learning 2-h module (http://se2020.altervista.org). Each test clip was scored for Blines from 0 (black lung, A-lines, no B-lines) to 10 (white lung, coalescing B-lines). The diagnostic gold standard was the concordant assessment of two experienced readers of the Pisa lab. The answer of the reader was considered correct if concordant with reference standard reading ±1 (for instance, reference standard reading of 5 B-lines; correct answer 4, 5, or 6). The a priori determined pass threshold was 18/20 (≥ 90%) with R value (intra-class correlation coefficient) between reference standard and recruiting center) > 0.90. Inter-observer agreement was assessed with intra-class correlation coefficient statistics. Results: All 60 readers were successfully accredited: 26 (43%) on first, 24 (40%) on second, and 10 (17%) on third attempt. The average diagnostic accuracy of the 60 accredited readers was 95%, with R value of 0.95 compared to reference standard reading. The 53 B-lines naive scored similarly to the 7 B-lines expert on first attempt (90 versus 95%, p = NS). Compared to the step-1 of quality control for regional wall motion abnormalities, the mean reading time per attempt was shorter (17 ± 3 vs 29 ± 12 min, p < .01), the first attempt success rate was higher (43 vs 28%, p < 0.01), and the drop-out of readers smaller (0 vs 28%, p < .01). Conclusions: Web-based learning is highly effective for teaching and harmonizing B-lines reading. Echocardiographers without previous experience with B-lines learn quickly.