PDF report table of contents
Foreword
Executive summary
- Synopsis
- Introduction
- Data acquisition
- Results
- Methodological issues
- Implications
Introduction
- Background
- Research into the clinical use of diagnostic tests
- Utilisation and impact of echocardiography
- Ruling out and reassuring
- Can a test cause harm?
- What is the problem?
- The present study
Methods
- Sampling procedures
- Sample size
- Supplementary series
- Data collection
- Data storage and analysis
Facts and figures
- Hypotheses
- The patient population
- Echocardiography report
- Physician questionnaire responses
- The consultation
- Patient impact
- Outcome and impact
- Reprise
The doctors
- Doctors-qualitative analysis
- Introduction
- The medical literature
- The cardiologists
- Discussion and conclusion
The patients
- Patients--qualitative analysis
- Introduction
- Do doctor and patient see things eye-to-eye?
- Literature review
- The patients
- Discussion
- Conclusion
Discussion of results
- Matching objectives with methods
- Descriptive and explanatory synthesis
- Theoretical synthesis
- Methodological issues
Practice and policy
- Implications
- For medical practice and education
- For community education
- For technology assessment and quality assurance
- For health screening
- For reimbursement policy
References
Appendixes
- Fields for database
- Categorisation and grading
- Patient summary
Acknowledgements