Yong Guo Liang, Weir-McCall Jonathan, Wilson Michael, Roditi Giles H, Bull Russell, Williams Michelle Claire, Schmitt Matthias
Clinical Radiology, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, UK
University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, UK, Cambridge, UK.
Open Heart. 2020 Oct;7(2). doi: 10.1136/openhrt-2020-001389.
A modified Delphi approach was used to develop consensus opinion among British Society for Cardiac Imaging/British Society of Cardiac CT (BSCI/BSCCT) members in order to prioritise research questions in cardiovascular imaging.
All members of the BSCI/BSCCT were invited to submit research questions that they considered to be of the highest clinical and/or academic priority in the field of cardiovascular imaging (phase 1). Subsequently a steering committee removed duplicate questions and combined questions of a similar theme by consensus agreement where appropriate. BSCI/BSCCT members were invited to rank the resulting research questions in two further iterative rounds (phases 2 and 3) to determine a final list of high-priority research questions.
A total of 111 research questions were submitted in phase 1 by 30 BSCI/BSCCT members. While there was a broad range of topics, from determining the optimal features/markers of the vulnerable plaque to investigating how cardiac imaging can best be used to maximise clinical outcomes and economic costs, multimodality imaging-related (n=44, 40%) questions dominated the categories and coronary artery imaging (n=40, 36%) was the most common topic. Over two iterative rounds of prioritisation of these research questions, the original 111 were reduced to 75 questions in round 2, and 25 in round 3. From these 25 a final was distilled by consensus grouping.
This study has identified and ranked the top research priorities in cardiovascular imaging, as identified by the BSCI/BSCCT membership. This is a first step towards identifying the cardiovascular imaging research priorities within the UK and may assist researchers and funding bodies alike in setting priorities.
采用改良德尔菲法在英国心脏影像学会/英国心脏CT学会（BSCI/BSCCT）成员中达成共识意见，以便对心血管影像领域的研究问题进行优先排序。
邀请BSCI/BSCCT的所有成员提交他们认为在心血管影像领域具有最高临床和/或学术优先级的研究问题（第一阶段）。随后，指导委员会删除重复问题，并在适当情况下通过协商一致合并类似主题的问题。邀请BSCI/BSCCT成员在另外两轮迭代中（第二阶段和第三阶段）对所得研究问题进行排序，以确定高优先级研究问题的最终清单。
在第一阶段，30名BSCI/BSCCT成员共提交了111个研究问题。虽然主题范围广泛，从确定易损斑块的最佳特征/标志物到研究如何最好地利用心脏影像以最大化临床结果和经济成本，但多模态影像相关问题（n = 44，40%）在类别中占主导地位，冠状动脉影像（n = 40，36%）是最常见的主题。在对这些研究问题进行两轮迭代优先排序后，最初的111个问题在第二轮减少到75个，在第三轮减少到25个。通过协商一致分组从这25个问题中提炼出最终清单。
本研究确定并排列了BSCI/BSCCT成员所确定的心血管影像领域的首要研究重点。这是确定英国心血管影像研究重点的第一步，可能有助于研究人员和资助机构确定优先事项。
