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| Moncada,Diana Carolina; Rueda,Zulma Vanessa; Macías,Antonio; Suárez,Tatiana; Ortega,Héctor; Vélez,Lázaro Agustín. |
| INTRODUCTION: Traditional reading of chest X-rays usually has a low prognostic value and poor agreement. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to determine the interobserver and intraobserver agreement using two reading formats in patients with community-acquired pneumonia, and to explore their association with etiology and clinical outcomes. METHODS: A pulmonologist and a radiologist, who were blind to clinical data, interpreted 211 radiographs using a traditional analysis format (type and location of pulmonary infiltrates and pleural findings), and a quantitative analysis (pulmonary damage categorized from 0 to 10). For both, the interobserver and intraobserver agreement was estimated (Kappa statistic and intraclass correlation coefficient). The latter was... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Radiography; Thoracic pneumonia reproducibility of results. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702011000600007 |
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