Eliminating Discrepancies Between Assessments of Left Ventricular Wall Motion on Echocardiograms

VernacularTitle:心臓超音波検査における左室壁運動評価平準化の試み
Author: Rina WAKISAKA ¹ ; Chinari FURUICHI ¹ ; Hideto FUKUOKA ¹ ; Masaya HIGUCHI ¹ ; Chihiro YANAGIMACHI ¹ ; Masahiko SODA ² ; Eizo MIYATA ³ ; Manabu MIURA ⁴
Author Information

1. Depts. of Clinical Laboratory, Kainan Hospital
2. Depts. of Medical Informatics, Kainan Hospital
3. Depts. of Laboratory Diagnosis, Kainan Hospital
4. Depts. of Cardiology, Kainan Hospital
From:Journal of the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine 2022;71(1):41-45
CountryJapan
Language:Japanese
Abstract: Echocardiographic assessment of wall motion is prone to interrater variability because it requires subjective visual evaluation. Echocardiography technicians were divided into 2 groups by years of experience, and their assessments of left ventricular wall motion on previously recorded echocardiograms were scored and compared. Scores did not differ within the more experienced group but differed significantly between technicians in the less experienced group. However, this difference disappeared after 3 months of training. This suggests that training can eliminate discrepancies between technicians, even inexperienced ones, in a relatively short period of time.