Background: Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is an established therapeutic option for heart failure, but despite careful selection around 30% of the patients still do not respond to this therapy. The standard electrocardiogram (ECG) is a practical and inexpensive tool to assess potential responders to CRT but with conflicting evidence regarding the value of different ECG parameters. As such, we conducted...
This study analyses the research output expected for the final curricular evaluation of Portuguese medical residency programs, with particular focus on cardiology. All publicly available specialty-specific evaluation grids were reviewed in December 2024. Cardiology required 46 research items to attain maximum scoring, including research papers and congress abstracts stratified by journal quartile. This was the ...