Interobserver reliability of the chest radiograph in community-acquired pneumonia

Chest

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 343-350

  Albaum, Michael N ^a   Hill, Lisa C ^a   Murphy, Miles ^a   Li, Yi Hwei ^b   Fuhrman, Carl R ^a   Britton, Cynthia A ^a   Kapoor, Wishwa N ^a   Fine, Michael J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

agreement; chest radiograph; community acquired pneumonia; reliability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; LUNG INFILTRATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0029759183     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.110.2.343     Document Type: Article

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