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European Journal of Echocardiography 2008 9(4):438-448; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen174
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2008. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

European Association of Echocardiography recommendations for standardization of performance, digital storage and reporting of echocardiographic studies

Arturo Evangelista1,*, Frank Flachskampf2, Patrizio Lancellotti3, Luigi Badano4, Rio Aguilar1, Mark Monaghan5, José Zamorano6, Petros Nihoyannopoulos7 on behalf of the European Association of Echocardiography

1 Servei de Cardiologia, Hospital Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain
2 University of Erlanguen, Erlanguen, Germany
3 Univerity Hospital, Liege, Belgium
4 IRCAB, Udine, Italy
5 King’s College Hospital, London, UK
6 Hospital Clinico de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
7 Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK

Received 20 January 2008; accepted after revision 11 May 2008.

* Corresponding author. Servei de Cardiologia, Hospital Vall d'Hebron, P° Vall d'Hebron 119, 08035, Barcelona, Spain. Tel: +34 93 2746 212; fax: +34 93 2746 244. E-mail address: aevangel{at}vhebron.net


  Abstract

In view of the European Association of Echocardiography (EAE) mission statement "To promote excellence in clinical diagnosis, research, technical development, and education in cardiovascular ultrasound in Europe" and the increasing demand for standardization and quality control, the EAE have established recommendations and guidelines for standardization of echocardiography performance, data acquisition (images, measurements and morphologic descriptors), digital storage and reporting of echocardiographic studies. The aim of these recommendations is to provide a European consensus document on the minimum acceptable requirements for the clinical practice of echocardiography today and thus improve the quality and consistency of echocardiographic practice in Europe.

Keywords: Guidelines; Echocardiography; Digitalization; Reproducibility; Report


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