Table 1: Interpretation of ECHO Images Obtained at Rest and During Stress

Table 2: Echocardiography Systems Licensed by Health Canada

Table 3: Characteristics of Meta-Analyses Included in Heijenbrok-Kal, 2007 Systematic Review*

Table 4: Quality of Evidence of Included Studies on Stress ECHO

Table 5: Estimates of Pooled Sensitivity, Pooled Specificity and Diagnostic Odds Ratio Derived From Studies Comparing Stress ECHO to Coronary Angiography for the Diagnosis of CAD

Table 6: Comparisons of Pooled Sensitivity and Pooled Specificity

Table 7: Area Under the Curve for Stress ECHO

Table 8: Subgroup Analyses of Stress Agents Using Diagnostic Odds Ratios for Stress ECHO

Table 9: Effect of Publication Date on Diagnostic Accuracy

Table 10: GRADE Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies for Stress ECHO Compared to Coronary Angiography for the Diagnosis of CAD

Table 11: Summary incremental cost-effectiveness ratios across selected studies evaluating stress ECHO

Table 12: Summary parameter estimates for stress ECHO tests: sensitivity, specificity; additional days needed to wait for specific cardiac tests; proportion of non-invasive tests considered uninterpretable

Table 13: List of cardiac imaging tests and associated OHIP 2009 costs

Table 14: Cost-effectiveness analysis base case results for stable outpatients

Table 15: Cost-effectiveness analysis base case results for acute inpatients

Table 11: Guidelines on ECHO

Table A1: Characteristics of studies comparing the accuracy of Stress ECHO to coronary angiography for the diagnosis of CAD

Table A2: Calculated estimates of diagnostic accuracy from studies comparing stress ECHO to coronary angiography for the diagnosis of CAD