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p&#61;0&#46;81&#41;&#46; Among cardiologists&#44; 10&#46;8&#37; of exams were ordered by residents&#46; Comparing cardiology residents with cardiology specialists showed a tendency for higher rates of inappropriate TTE in the residents &#40;30&#46;2&#37; vs&#46; 20&#46;1&#37;&#44; p&#61;0&#46;13&#41;&#46; The most frequent inappropriate indication was routine surveillance of ventricular function with known CAD and no change in clinical status or cardiac exam &#40;indication 11&#41;&#46;</p><p id="par0065" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In non-cardiology specialties&#44; all TTE exams requested by oncologists and neurologists were appropriate&#46; The sole indication for requesting an exam by oncologists was baseline and serial re-evaluations in patients undergoing therapy with cardiotoxic agents &#40;indication 91&#41;&#44; while neurologists requested TTE for evaluating patients with stroke or TIA &#40;indication 1&#41;&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0055" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0115">Unclassifiable studies</span><p id="par0070" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Twenty exams were considered unclassifiable because they did not match any clinical indication listed in the AUC document&#46; Exams performed after invasive procedures &#40;pulmonary vein isolation or percutaneous closure of atrial septal defect or left atrial appendage&#41; accounted for 50&#37; of unclassifiable studies&#46; Echocardiographic follow-up of patients who had undergone transcatheter aortic valve implantation &#40;TAVI&#41; was responsible for 35&#37;&#46; The other cases were for postoperative assessment of cardiac tumor resection &#40;two cases&#41; and repair of right ventricular perforation by a pacemaker lead &#40;one case&#41;&#46;</p></span></span><span id="sec0060" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0120">Discussion</span><p id="par0075" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">We found that&#44; according to the 2011 AUC document&#44; 78&#46;7&#37; of TTE requests were appropriate&#44; 15&#46;3&#37; were inappropriate and 6&#46;0&#37; were of uncertain appropriateness&#46; These results are similar to those reported by other studies&#44; in which appropriateness rates range from 71&#46;0&#37; to 96&#46;5&#37;&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0105"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5&#44;6&#44;9&#44;10</span></a> Several factors may influence these results&#44; such as the setting in which the study is carried out &#40;university vs&#46; non-university center&#44; tertiary vs&#46; non-tertiary center&#44; in- vs&#46; outpatients&#41;&#44; the characteristics of the study population and the specialty of the requesting physician&#46;</p><p id="par0080" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Given that in 2013 about 10 000 TTE exams were performed at our echocardiography laboratory &#40;echo lab&#41;&#44; the sample included in this study probably reflects the usual pattern of TTE requests at our center&#46; A significant proportion of appropriate exams were performed to evaluate symptoms or conditions potentially related to cardiac etiology&#44; in particular stroke or TIA&#46; Other common appropriate indications were related to initial evaluation of patients with known or suspected heart failure&#44; hypertensive heart disease or valvular or structural heart disease&#46; A few scenarios account for the majority of inappropriate studies&#46; The most significant was routine surveillance of ventricular function in patients with known CAD and no change in clinical status or cardiac exam&#44; which is also reported in other studies as a frequent inappropriate indication&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0125"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">9&#44;10</span></a></p><p id="par0085" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The study population was mainly composed of outpatients&#46; We found that inappropriate requests were more frequent in outpatients than in inpatients&#46; This is not unexpected&#44; since inpatients commonly present new symptoms or signs suggesting cardiac disease or worsening of known cardiovascular disease&#44; and both scenarios are rated as appropriate&#46; On the other hand&#44; outpatient requests usually refer to routine TTE in patients with no change in clinical status&#44; which is normally rated as inappropriate&#46; Previous studies have also reported a higher proportion of inappropriate exams among outpatients&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0100"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4&#44;5</span></a></p><p id="par0090" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Surprisingly&#44; cardiologists presented a higher rate of inappropriateness &#40;19&#46;1&#37;&#41; than most other specialties&#46; This was mainly related to routine evaluation of outpatients with known CAD and no change in clinical status&#46; These findings conflict with other studies&#44; in which cardiologists&#8217; requests were more often appropriate than other specialties&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0125"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">9&#44;10</span></a> At our center&#44; cardiologists have close contact with the echo lab and easier access to the scheduling system than other specialties&#44; which could explain some of the overuse of the technique&#46; Interestingly&#44; we found that cardiologists who read TTE had similar rates of inappropriate requests to other cardiologists&#46;</p><p id="par0095" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Cardiology residents presented a higher rate of inappropriate requests than cardiology specialists&#44; although the difference was not statistically significant&#46; Recently&#44; Bhatia et al&#46; reported similar rates of inappropriate TTE among cardiology fellows&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0140"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12</span></a></p><p id="par0100" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The Portuguese National Health Service provides health coverage for all the population and is mainly funded through general taxation&#46; Physicians are paid a fixed monthly wage&#44; which is not related to services rendered&#46; Despite constant monitoring of effectiveness and quality&#44; the national public health surveillance system does not perform any systematic monitoring of appropriateness of requested tests&#46; The strict application of AUC would have reduced the number of exams performed annually at our echo lab by around 1500&#46;</p><p id="par0105" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">There are few data on the best strategies to improve AUC compliance&#46; Bhatia et al&#46; reported a significant reduction in the proportion of inappropriate TTE exams in an inpatient academic medical service after implementation of a simple educational program consisting of lectures&#44; pocket cards and feedback on ordering behavior via e-mail&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0115"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">7</span></a> However&#44; some methodological caveats have been pointed out regarding this study&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0135"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">11</span></a> Recently&#44; the same group of investigators reported the results of the first randomized control trial of an AUC-based educational and feedback intervention designed to reduce inappropriate outpatient TTE ordered by physicians-in-training&#44; mainly cardiology fellows&#46; After implementing an educational intervention &#40;generally similar to that described above&#41;&#44; they reported a significantly lower rate of inappropriate TTE in the intervention compared to the control group &#40;13&#37; vs&#46; 34&#37;&#44; p&#60;0&#46;001&#41;&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0140"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12</span></a> Interestingly&#44; in both in- and outpatient settings&#44; there was an increase in inappropriate TTE during follow-up in the post-intervention period&#44; suggesting the need for a continued program to achieve sustained improvement in physicians&#8217; ordering behavior&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0140"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12&#44;13</span></a> Given the heterogeneity of most common inappropriate indications between centers&#44; a strategy tailored to the specificities of each practice environment would be desirable&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0115"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">7</span></a></p><p id="par0110" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Information on the clinical impact of AUC compliance is scarce and inconsistent&#46; In a multicenter community study&#44; Ballo et al&#46; showed that TTE exams with appropriate or uncertain indications were often clinically more useful than those with inappropriate indications &#40;87&#37; vs&#46; 14&#37;&#44; p&#60;0&#46;001&#41;&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0125"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">9</span></a> Clinical impact was defined as any change in diagnostic workup&#44; therapeutic decisions or follow-up planning induced by TTE results&#46; However&#44; more recently&#44; in a single academic center study&#44; Matulevicius et al&#46;&#44; using the same definition&#44; found a markedly lower overall rate of clinical impact &#40;32&#37;&#41;&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0120"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">8</span></a> In addition&#44; the proportion of exams resulting in an active change in clinical care did not correlate with AUC classification&#46; However&#44; the use of retrospective review of electronic medical records to determine clinical significance has been identified as a major drawback of this study&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0150"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">14</span></a> One of the main challenges in future studies will be to define more precise measures of the utility of appropriate vs&#46; inappropriate TTE in clinical practice&#46;</p><p id="par0115" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The 2011 update of the 2007 AUC increased the clinical indications for TTE from 59 to 98 and led to a significant reduction in unclassified studies&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0105"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5&#44;15</span></a> Indeed&#44; in this study the AUC indications covered most of the clinical requests&#44; with only 2&#46;5&#37; being unclassifiable&#46; Control TTE after cardiovascular interventions and TAVI follow-up accounted for the majority of unclassifiable tests&#46; Recently&#44; the European Society of Cardiology and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging announced the formation of a taskforce to define appropriateness criteria for cardiovascular imaging use in clinical practice in Europe&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0160"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">16</span></a> Some of these missing clinical scenarios should be considered in future recommendations&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0065" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0125">Limitations</span><p id="par0120" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">This is a single tertiary center study&#44; and therefore the results cannot be extrapolated to other settings&#46; Despite extensive review of all patient information&#44; there was no direct contact with the ordering physician&#44; and so the process of determining the AUC indication is not free of bias related to clinical factors not fully considered by the reviewers&#46; We did not collect data on TTE abnormalities or assess its impact on decision-making due to the lack of detailed electronically stored information&#46; Finally&#44; we had a low number of TTE exams in an acute setting&#44; since in this context cardiologists usually perform focused bedside echocardiography rather than complete TTE at the echo lab&#46; This may result in some underestimation of the overall appropriateness of TTE&#44; as in this group the rate of appropriateness is higher than in outpatients&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0070" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0130">Conclusions</span><p id="par0125" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The majority of TTE requests at a Portuguese tertiary care center were appropriate&#46; Cardiologists&#8217; requests and outpatient referrals presented the highest rates of inappropriateness&#46; Strategies to improve AUC compliance and evaluation of its impact on clinical outcomes should be explored in the near future&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0075" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0135">Ethical disclosures</span><span id="sec0080" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0140">Protection of human and animal subjects</span><p id="par0130" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The authors declare that no experiments were performed on humans or animals for this study&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0085" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0145">Confidentiality of data</span><p id="par0135" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The authors declare that no patient data appear in this article&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0090" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0150">Right to privacy and informed consent</span><p id="par0140" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The authors declare that no patient data appear in this article&#46;</p></span></span><span id="sec0095" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0155">Conflicts of interest</span><p id="par0145" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare&#46;</p></span></span>"
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                  \t\t\t\t</th><th class="td" title="table-head  " align="left" valign="top" scope="col" style="border-bottom: 2px solid black">Total&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
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                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">87&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">1&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">301&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td></tr><tr title="table-row"><td class="td-with-role" title="table-entry ; entry_with_role_rowhead " align="left" valign="top">Cardiovascular evaluation in an acute setting&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
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                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">4&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">3&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">60&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td></tr><tr title="table-row"><td class="td-with-role" title="table-entry ; entry_with_role_rowhead " align="left" valign="top">Evaluation of valvular function&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">175&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">21&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">7&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">203&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
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                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">0&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">0&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">25&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td></tr><tr title="table-row"><td class="td-with-role" title="table-entry ; entry_with_role_rowhead " align="left" valign="top">Evaluation of aortic disease&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">8&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">0&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">0&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">8&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
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                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">134&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">6&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">35&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">175&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
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                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">1&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">1&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">7&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
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Appropriate use criteria for transthoracic echocardiography at a tertiary care center
Critérios de adequação para ecocardiografia transtorácica num centro terciário
Paulo Fonseca
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, Francisco Sampaio, José Ribeiro, Helena Gonçalves, Vasco Gama
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p&#61;0&#46;81&#41;&#46; Among cardiologists&#44; 10&#46;8&#37; of exams were ordered by residents&#46; Comparing cardiology residents with cardiology specialists showed a tendency for higher rates of inappropriate TTE in the residents &#40;30&#46;2&#37; vs&#46; 20&#46;1&#37;&#44; p&#61;0&#46;13&#41;&#46; The most frequent inappropriate indication was routine surveillance of ventricular function with known CAD and no change in clinical status or cardiac exam &#40;indication 11&#41;&#46;</p><p id="par0065" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In non-cardiology specialties&#44; all TTE exams requested by oncologists and neurologists were appropriate&#46; The sole indication for requesting an exam by oncologists was baseline and serial re-evaluations in patients undergoing therapy with cardiotoxic agents &#40;indication 91&#41;&#44; while neurologists requested TTE for evaluating patients with stroke or TIA &#40;indication 1&#41;&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0055" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0115">Unclassifiable studies</span><p id="par0070" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Twenty exams were considered unclassifiable because they did not match any clinical indication listed in the AUC document&#46; Exams performed after invasive procedures &#40;pulmonary vein isolation or percutaneous closure of atrial septal defect or left atrial appendage&#41; accounted for 50&#37; of unclassifiable studies&#46; Echocardiographic follow-up of patients who had undergone transcatheter aortic valve implantation &#40;TAVI&#41; was responsible for 35&#37;&#46; The other cases were for postoperative assessment of cardiac tumor resection &#40;two cases&#41; and repair of right ventricular perforation by a pacemaker lead &#40;one case&#41;&#46;</p></span></span><span id="sec0060" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0120">Discussion</span><p id="par0075" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">We found that&#44; according to the 2011 AUC document&#44; 78&#46;7&#37; of TTE requests were appropriate&#44; 15&#46;3&#37; were inappropriate and 6&#46;0&#37; were of uncertain appropriateness&#46; These results are similar to those reported by other studies&#44; in which appropriateness rates range from 71&#46;0&#37; to 96&#46;5&#37;&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0105"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5&#44;6&#44;9&#44;10</span></a> Several factors may influence these results&#44; such as the setting in which the study is carried out &#40;university vs&#46; non-university center&#44; tertiary vs&#46; non-tertiary center&#44; in- vs&#46; outpatients&#41;&#44; the characteristics of the study population and the specialty of the requesting physician&#46;</p><p id="par0080" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Given that in 2013 about 10 000 TTE exams were performed at our echocardiography laboratory &#40;echo lab&#41;&#44; the sample included in this study probably reflects the usual pattern of TTE requests at our center&#46; A significant proportion of appropriate exams were performed to evaluate symptoms or conditions potentially related to cardiac etiology&#44; in particular stroke or TIA&#46; Other common appropriate indications were related to initial evaluation of patients with known or suspected heart failure&#44; hypertensive heart disease or valvular or structural heart disease&#46; A few scenarios account for the majority of inappropriate studies&#46; The most significant was routine surveillance of ventricular function in patients with known CAD and no change in clinical status or cardiac exam&#44; which is also reported in other studies as a frequent inappropriate indication&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0125"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">9&#44;10</span></a></p><p id="par0085" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The study population was mainly composed of outpatients&#46; We found that inappropriate requests were more frequent in outpatients than in inpatients&#46; This is not unexpected&#44; since inpatients commonly present new symptoms or signs suggesting cardiac disease or worsening of known cardiovascular disease&#44; and both scenarios are rated as appropriate&#46; On the other hand&#44; outpatient requests usually refer to routine TTE in patients with no change in clinical status&#44; which is normally rated as inappropriate&#46; Previous studies have also reported a higher proportion of inappropriate exams among outpatients&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0100"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4&#44;5</span></a></p><p id="par0090" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Surprisingly&#44; cardiologists presented a higher rate of inappropriateness &#40;19&#46;1&#37;&#41; than most other specialties&#46; This was mainly related to routine evaluation of outpatients with known CAD and no change in clinical status&#46; These findings conflict with other studies&#44; in which cardiologists&#8217; requests were more often appropriate than other specialties&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0125"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">9&#44;10</span></a> At our center&#44; cardiologists have close contact with the echo lab and easier access to the scheduling system than other specialties&#44; which could explain some of the overuse of the technique&#46; Interestingly&#44; we found that cardiologists who read TTE had similar rates of inappropriate requests to other cardiologists&#46;</p><p id="par0095" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Cardiology residents presented a higher rate of inappropriate requests than cardiology specialists&#44; although the difference was not statistically significant&#46; Recently&#44; Bhatia et al&#46; reported similar rates of inappropriate TTE among cardiology fellows&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0140"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12</span></a></p><p id="par0100" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The Portuguese National Health Service provides health coverage for all the population and is mainly funded through general taxation&#46; Physicians are paid a fixed monthly wage&#44; which is not related to services rendered&#46; Despite constant monitoring of effectiveness and quality&#44; the national public health surveillance system does not perform any systematic monitoring of appropriateness of requested tests&#46; The strict application of AUC would have reduced the number of exams performed annually at our echo lab by around 1500&#46;</p><p id="par0105" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">There are few data on the best strategies to improve AUC compliance&#46; Bhatia et al&#46; reported a significant reduction in the proportion of inappropriate TTE exams in an inpatient academic medical service after implementation of a simple educational program consisting of lectures&#44; pocket cards and feedback on ordering behavior via e-mail&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0115"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">7</span></a> However&#44; some methodological caveats have been pointed out regarding this study&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0135"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">11</span></a> Recently&#44; the same group of investigators reported the results of the first randomized control trial of an AUC-based educational and feedback intervention designed to reduce inappropriate outpatient TTE ordered by physicians-in-training&#44; mainly cardiology fellows&#46; After implementing an educational intervention &#40;generally similar to that described above&#41;&#44; they reported a significantly lower rate of inappropriate TTE in the intervention compared to the control group &#40;13&#37; vs&#46; 34&#37;&#44; p&#60;0&#46;001&#41;&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0140"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12</span></a> Interestingly&#44; in both in- and outpatient settings&#44; there was an increase in inappropriate TTE during follow-up in the post-intervention period&#44; suggesting the need for a continued program to achieve sustained improvement in physicians&#8217; ordering behavior&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0140"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12&#44;13</span></a> Given the heterogeneity of most common inappropriate indications between centers&#44; a strategy tailored to the specificities of each practice environment would be desirable&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0115"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">7</span></a></p><p id="par0110" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Information on the clinical impact of AUC compliance is scarce and inconsistent&#46; In a multicenter community study&#44; Ballo et al&#46; showed that TTE exams with appropriate or uncertain indications were often clinically more useful than those with inappropriate indications &#40;87&#37; vs&#46; 14&#37;&#44; p&#60;0&#46;001&#41;&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0125"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">9</span></a> Clinical impact was defined as any change in diagnostic workup&#44; therapeutic decisions or follow-up planning induced by TTE results&#46; However&#44; more recently&#44; in a single academic center study&#44; Matulevicius et al&#46;&#44; using the same definition&#44; found a markedly lower overall rate of clinical impact &#40;32&#37;&#41;&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0120"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">8</span></a> In addition&#44; the proportion of exams resulting in an active change in clinical care did not correlate with AUC classification&#46; However&#44; the use of retrospective review of electronic medical records to determine clinical significance has been identified as a major drawback of this study&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0150"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">14</span></a> One of the main challenges in future studies will be to define more precise measures of the utility of appropriate vs&#46; inappropriate TTE in clinical practice&#46;</p><p id="par0115" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The 2011 update of the 2007 AUC increased the clinical indications for TTE from 59 to 98 and led to a significant reduction in unclassified studies&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0105"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5&#44;15</span></a> Indeed&#44; in this study the AUC indications covered most of the clinical requests&#44; with only 2&#46;5&#37; being unclassifiable&#46; Control TTE after cardiovascular interventions and TAVI follow-up accounted for the majority of unclassifiable tests&#46; Recently&#44; the European Society of Cardiology and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging announced the formation of a taskforce to define appropriateness criteria for cardiovascular imaging use in clinical practice in Europe&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0160"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">16</span></a> Some of these missing clinical scenarios should be considered in future recommendations&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0065" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0125">Limitations</span><p id="par0120" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">This is a single tertiary center study&#44; and therefore the results cannot be extrapolated to other settings&#46; Despite extensive review of all patient information&#44; there was no direct contact with the ordering physician&#44; and so the process of determining the AUC indication is not free of bias related to clinical factors not fully considered by the reviewers&#46; We did not collect data on TTE abnormalities or assess its impact on decision-making due to the lack of detailed electronically stored information&#46; Finally&#44; we had a low number of TTE exams in an acute setting&#44; since in this context cardiologists usually perform focused bedside echocardiography rather than complete TTE at the echo lab&#46; This may result in some underestimation of the overall appropriateness of TTE&#44; as in this group the rate of appropriateness is higher than in outpatients&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0070" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0130">Conclusions</span><p id="par0125" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The majority of TTE requests at a Portuguese tertiary care center were appropriate&#46; Cardiologists&#8217; requests and outpatient referrals presented the highest rates of inappropriateness&#46; Strategies to improve AUC compliance and evaluation of its impact on clinical outcomes should be explored in the near future&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0075" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0135">Ethical disclosures</span><span id="sec0080" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0140">Protection of human and animal subjects</span><p id="par0130" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The authors declare that no experiments were performed on humans or animals for this study&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0085" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0145">Confidentiality of data</span><p id="par0135" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The authors declare that no patient data appear in this article&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0090" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0150">Right to privacy and informed consent</span><p id="par0140" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The authors declare that no patient data appear in this article&#46;</p></span></span><span id="sec0095" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0155">Conflicts of interest</span><p id="par0145" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare&#46;</p></span></span>"
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                  \t\t\t\t</th><th class="td" title="table-head  " align="left" valign="top" scope="col" style="border-bottom: 2px solid black">Total&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
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                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">87&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">1&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">301&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td></tr><tr title="table-row"><td class="td-with-role" title="table-entry ; entry_with_role_rowhead " align="left" valign="top">Cardiovascular evaluation in an acute setting&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
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                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">4&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">3&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">60&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td></tr><tr title="table-row"><td class="td-with-role" title="table-entry ; entry_with_role_rowhead " align="left" valign="top">Evaluation of valvular function&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">175&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">21&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">7&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">203&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
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                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">0&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">0&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">25&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td></tr><tr title="table-row"><td class="td-with-role" title="table-entry ; entry_with_role_rowhead " align="left" valign="top">Evaluation of aortic disease&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">8&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">0&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">0&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">8&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
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                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">134&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">6&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">35&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">175&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
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                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">1&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">1&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
                  \t\t\t\t</td><td class="td" title="table-entry  " align="char" valign="top">7&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
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2022 Abril 43 30 73
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2022 Fevereiro 25 19 44
2022 Janeiro 31 26 57
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2021 Novembro 53 41 94
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2021 Setembro 32 26 58
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2021 Julho 35 31 66
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2021 Maio 46 32 78
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2021 Janeiro 78 15 93
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2020 Novembro 50 28 78
2020 Outubro 35 20 55
2020 Setembro 78 15 93
2020 Agosto 35 14 49
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2020 Maio 64 2 66
2020 Abril 59 10 69
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2020 Fevereiro 98 31 129
2020 Janeiro 44 12 56
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2019 Novembro 43 4 47
2019 Outubro 45 7 52
2019 Setembro 32 8 40
2019 Agosto 36 8 44
2019 Julho 50 11 61
2019 Junho 46 20 66
2019 Maio 50 16 66
2019 Abril 34 14 48
2019 Maro 34 13 47
2019 Fevereiro 29 11 40
2019 Janeiro 31 7 38
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2018 Novembro 113 14 127
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2018 Setembro 50 17 67
2018 Agosto 46 14 60
2018 Julho 36 10 46
2018 Junho 38 8 46
2018 Maio 44 11 55
2018 Abril 54 6 60
2018 Maro 59 5 64
2018 Fevereiro 64 10 74
2018 Janeiro 19 5 24
2017 Dezembro 68 8 76
2017 Novembro 41 10 51
2017 Outubro 41 6 47
2017 Setembro 25 4 29
2017 Agosto 28 12 40
2017 Julho 19 9 28
2017 Junho 42 15 57
2017 Maio 24 12 36
2017 Abril 28 1 29
2017 Maro 18 0 18
2017 Fevereiro 25 10 35
2017 Janeiro 20 3 23
2016 Dezembro 19 3 22
2016 Novembro 15 4 19
2016 Outubro 20 7 27
2016 Setembro 14 7 21
2016 Agosto 14 2 16
2016 Julho 11 8 19
2016 Junho 5 8 13
2016 Maio 18 0 18
2016 Abril 22 2 24
2016 Maro 49 9 58
2016 Fevereiro 49 33 82
2016 Janeiro 93 77 170
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