Suboptimal Echocardiographic Image Quality Predicts in‐Hospital Mortality Across the Adult Age Spectrum, Independent of Admission Type: A Large‐Scale NLP Study

Abstract

Suboptimal echocardiographic image quality is common and usually treated as a reason for study exclusion, yet discarded studies come disproportionately from older patients. We examined whether it independently predicts in‐hospital mortality across the adult age spectrum.