Influence of Individual Personality Traits of the Reader on Visual Assessment of Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction: Another Reason to Abandon Visual Assessment

J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2023 Dec;36(12):1332-1335. doi: 10.1016/j.echo.2023.08.015. Epub 2023 Aug 23.

¹ Department of Cardiology, Maastricht University Medical Center+, Maastricht, The Netherlands. Electronic address: c.knackstedt@mumc.nl.
² Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Technology Assessment, Maastricht University Medical Centre+, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
³ TOMTEC Imaging Systems GmbH, Unterschleissheim, Germany.
⁴ Department of Cardiology, Maastricht University Medical Center+, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
⁵ Department of Cardiology, Angiology, Pneumology and Intensive Care Medicine, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany.
⁶ Department of Cardiology, Rhein-Maas Klinikum, Würselen, Germany.
⁷ Department of Cardiology, Zuyderland Medisch Centrum, Sittard, The Netherlands.
⁸ Department of Psychiatry and Psychosomatics, LWL Hospital Paderborn, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
⁹ Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.

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Keywords: Echocardiography; Ejection fraction; Left ventricular function; NEO PI-R; Personality traits.

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