British Society of Echocardiography members are invited to contribute to the latest survey from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Over the past decade, the IAEA, part of the United Nations family of organizations,
has conducted a number of surveys of worldwide cardiac imaging practice. The most recent survey, on the impact
of the COVID-19 pandemic on cardiac diagnostic testing practices, is called INCAPS COVID and has been publishedin the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC).
The INCAPS team believes that it is important to understand the impact that COVID-19 continues to have on cardiac
diagnostic testing practice worldwide. They have developed a follow-up survey to assess this impact and would be
grateful for your participation. There are 3 parts to the INCAPS COVID 2 survey:
- Basic data about you and your lab/facility (including information needed to include you in publications);
- A series of questions about your lab/facility’s practices regarding COVID-19;
- An estimate of the numbers of different cardiac imaging procedures your lab/facility has done during the
pandemic (April 2020 and April 2021) and during the baseline month of March 2019. If your lab/facility
participated in last year’s survey, we only need you to provide the new data from April 2021. We anticipate this
should take only 10 minutes of your time per lab/facility.
The one or two individuals contributing data from each facility will be included in publications as a member listed
by name in the INCAPS COVID 2 Investigators Group in all publications wherever possible. No more
than one survey should be completed from each institution and hence only one person from each centre needs to fill in
the data. Individuals within each centre are asked to talk with their colleagues and share the information so that only
one survey needs to be completed per centre. If a second person assists, there is space in the survey to specify the
second person’s name to be included for authors group membership in publications. The IAEA aims to publish this
collected data in a timely fashion so that this becomes available over the next several weeks.
You can complete the survey at the link below. If you are affiliated with
multiple facilities/centres, you should complete the survey separately for each centre. The
deadline for completing the survey is Monday 31 May 2021. The survey can be completed in more than one sitting if using a single
computer.
We are well aware that you are all very busy at this difficult time, but we are hopeful that, with your help, we can contribute to an excellent survey which will offer valuable follow-up to the 2020 version, and help patients around the world.
Complete the survey