Tag Archives: ECG competence
October 2014 Br J Cardiol 2014;21:146 Online First
Correspondence: improving ECG competence and confidence: a local DGH perspective
Drs Christopher McAloon, Helen Leach, Simrat Gill, Jasper Trevelyan and Arun Aluwalia
Dear Sirs, I read with interest the article by Rowlands and Moore1 on the current variability in the competence among healthcare professionals including experienced clinicians interpreting electrocardiograms (ECGs). The fundamental point is raised about the patient safety risk that occurs across the National Health Service (NHS). A previous retrospective analysis of 1,000 single-centre emergency department cases and ECGs found that 38 patients had been discharged with ‘abnormalities that could potentially alter case management’.2 The route of variability in competence of ECG interpretation for doctors can be traced back to undergraduate a
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