Why the study?
Echocardiography is crucial for diagnosis and therapeutic decision-making, requiring addressed methodological standards to make correct diagnoses and avoid overlooked diagnoses caused by improper use.
Provides expert recommendations on methodological requirements to avoid common errors and missed diagnoses in left heart echocardiography.
Implementation of these standards should reduce diagnostic errors in left heart echocardiography; extends prior consensus with actionable methodological requirements.
Echocardiography is the most commonly used imaging modality in cardiology and serves as a crucial first step in diagnosis and therapeutic decision making. This expert proposal aims to address methodological requirements in order to make the correct diagnosis and prevent diagnoses from being overlooked due to improper use.
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