Screening for rheumatic heart disease: quality and agreement of focused cardiac ultrasound by briefly trained health workers

Table 2 Quality of focused cardiac ultrasound by nurses

View	Quality	Nurse 1		Nurse 2		Nurse 3		Nurse 4		Nurse 5		Nurse 6		Nurse 7		Total
View	Quality	n = 250		n = 264		n = 340		n = 340		n = 274		n = 311		n = 239		n = 2018
		n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
Overall	1	248	99.2	216	81.8	338	99.4	337	99.1	266	97.1	308	99.0	236	98.7	1949	96.6
	2	2	0.8	42	15.9	0	0.0	2	0.6	7	2.6	3	1.0	2	0.8	58	2.9
	3	0	0.0	6	2.3	2	0.6	1	0.3	1	0.4	0	0.0	1	0.4	11	0.5
MV 2D	1	247	98.8	204	77.3	337	99.1	337	99.1	265	96.7	308	99.0	235	98.3	1933	95.8
	2	3	1.2	59	22.3	1	0.3	3	0.9	9	3.3	3	1.0	4	1.7	82	4.0
	3	0	0.0	1	0.4	2	0.6	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	3	0.2
MV CD	1	249	99.6	210	79.5	337	99.1	334	98.2	256	93.4	308	97.1	228	95.4	1916	94.9
	2	1	0.4	48	18.2	1	0.3	5	1.5	17	6.2	3	2.9	10	4.2	91	4.5
	3	0	0.0	6	2.3	2	0.6	1	0.3	1	0.4	0	0.0	1	0.4	11	0.5
AV 2D	1	244	97.6	215	81.4	329	96.7	325	95.6	268	97.8	302	99.0	236	98.7	1925	95.4
	2	6	2.4	49	18.6	9	2.7	15	4.4	5	1.8	9	1.0	3	1.3	90	4.5
	3	0	0.0	0	0.0	2	0.6	0	0.0	1	0.4	0	0.0	0	0.0	3	0.1
AV CD	1	248	99.2	224	84.8	338	99.4	340	100.0	266	97.1	308	99.4	236	98.3	1960	97.1
	2	2	0.8	38	14.4	0	0.0	0	0.0	7	2.6	3	0.6	3	1.7	53	2.6
	3	0	0.0	2	0.8	2	0.6	0	0.0	1	0.4	0	0.0	0	0.0	5	0.3

Quality: 1, adequate for diagnosis; 2, poor but diagnosis made; 3, not interpretable. AV aortic valve, MV mitral valve, 2D two-dimensional mode, CD color Doppler mode

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