Echocardiographic Diagnosis of Rheumatic Heart Disease: Substantial Agreement, Inter-Rater Reliability and Accuracy Between Cardiac Sonographers and Paediatric Cardiologists
Expert cardiac sonographers achieved a similar level of agreement, inter-rater reliability, and accuracy to expert cardiologists in the reporting of RHD. These findings support the use of task-sharing for the echocardiographic detection of RHD.
Authors
- Michael Cursaro
- S. Takau
- C. Mylrea
- Ari Horton (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2043-4343)
- D W Bruce
- Gavin Wheaton
- Arthur Zanker
- Robert Justo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7896-7153)
- Jacqueline Williamson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1702-2006)
- Gillian Whalley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5713-6967)
- Zhiqiang Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8087-436X)
- Peter S Morris (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-7146-3318)
- Bo Remenyi
- Suzanne Davy-Snow
Institutions
- Royal Adelaide Hospital (AU)
- Middlemore Hospital (NZ)
- Princess Margaret Hospital for Children (AU)
- Women's and Children's Hospital (AU)
- Charles Darwin University (AU)
- Menzies School of Health Research (AU)
- Monash Health (AU)
- Royal Darwin Hospital (AU)
- Starship Children's Health (NZ)
- Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service (AU)
- Perth Children's Hospital
- University of Otago (NZ)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Heart Lung and Circulation
- Published
- 2025-06-19
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hlc.2025.03.001
- Primary Topic
- Streptococcal Infections and Treatments
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Menzies School of Health Research
- Australian Government
- Charles Darwin University