Casey L Johnson, William Woodward, Annabelle McCourt, Cameron Dockerill, Samuel Krasner, Mark Monaghan, Roxy Senior, Daniel X Augustine, Maria Paton, Jamie O'Driscoll, David Oxborough, Keith Pearce, Shaun Robinson, James Willis, Rajan Sharma, Apostolos Tsiachristas, Paul Leeson
BACKGROUND: Stress echocardiography is widely used to detect coronary artery disease, but little evidence on downstream hospital costs in real-world practice is available. We examined how stress echocardiography accuracy and downstream hospital costs vary across NHS hospitals and identified key factors that affect costs to help inform future clinical planning and guidelines. METHODS: Data on 7636 patients recruited from 31 NHS hospitals within the UK between 2014 and 2020 as part of EVAREST/BSE-NSTEP clinical study, were used...
May 31, 2023: Echo Research and Practice