Providing Delayed, In-Person Collected Feedback From Residents to Teaching Faculty: Lessons Learned.

Teaching faculty request timely feedback from residents to improve their skills. Yet even with anonymous processes, this upward feedback can be difficult to obtain as residents raise concerns about identification and repercussions. To examine faculty perception of the quality and content of feedback from residents after increasing anonymity and sacrificing timeliness.

Performance of Single-Lead Handheld Electrocardiograms for Atrial Fibrillation Screening in Primary Care: The VITAL-AF Trial.

Background: Handheld single-lead electrocardiographic (1L ECG) devices are increasingly used for atrial fibrillation (AF) screening, but their real-world performance is not well understood.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to quantify the diagnostic test characteristics of 1L ECG automated interpretations for prospective AF screening.

Methods: We calculated the diagnostic test characteristics of the AliveCor KardiaMobile 1L ECG (AliveCor, US) algorithm using unblinded cardiologist overread as the gold standard using single 30s tracings administered by medical assistants among individuals aged ≥65 years participating in the VITAL-AF trial (NCT03515057) of population-based AF screening embedded within routine primary care.

Cardiovascular Risk Estimation Is Suboptimal in People With HIV.

Background: Established cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk prediction functions may not accurately predict CVD risk in people with HIV. We assessed the performance of 3 CVD risk prediction functions in 2 HIV cohorts.

Methods And Results: CVD risk scores were calculated in the Mass General Brigham and Kaiser Permanente Northern California HIV cohorts, using the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association atherosclerotic CVD function, the FHS (Framingham Heart Study) hard coronary heart disease function and the Framingham Heart Study hard CVD function.

Automated interpretations of single-lead electrocardiograms predict incident atrial fibrillation: The VITAL-AF trial.

Background: Single-lead electrocardiograms (1L ECGs) are increasingly used for atrial fibrillation (AF) detection. Automated 1L ECG interpretation may have prognostic value for future AF in cases in which screening does not result in a short-term AF diagnosis.

Objective: We sought to investigate the association between automated 1L ECG interpretation and incident AF.