Clinical radiology
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Multicenter Study
Inter-observer variation in the interpretation of chest radiographs for pneumonia in community-acquired lower respiratory tract infections.
To assess inter-observer variation in the interpretation of chest radiographs of individuals with pneumonia versus those without pneumonia. ⋯ The overall inter-observer agreement adjusted for chance was moderate. Inter-observer agreement in cases with pneumonia was much worse than the agreement in negative (i.e. non-pneumonia) cases. A general practitioner's selection of patients with a higher chance of having pneumonia for chest radiography would thus not improve the observer agreement.