Idiopathic interstitial pneumonia: Do community and academic physicians agree on diagnosis?

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 175, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1054-1060

  Flaherty, Kevin R ^a,k   Andrei, Adin Cristian ^b   King Jr , Talmadge E ^c   Raghu, Ganesh ^d   Colby, Thomas V ^e   Wells, Athol ^f   Bassily, Nadir ^g   Brown, Kevin ^h   Du Bois, Roland ^f   Flint, Andrew ^a   Gay, Steven E ^a   Gross, Barry H ^a   Kazerooni, Ella A ^a   Knapp, Robert ⁱ   Louvar, Edmund ^g   Lynch, David ^h   Nicholson, Andrew G ^f   Quick, John ^j   Thannickal, Victor J ^a   Travis, William D ^j   Vyskocil, James ^g   Wadenstorer, Frazer A ^g   Wilt, Jeffrey ⁱ   Toews, Galen B ^a   Murray, Susan ^b   Martinez, Fernando J ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^f ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^g MCLAREN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^h NATIONAL JEWISH MEDICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ SPECTRUM HEALTH   (United States)

^j MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Academic; Community; Diagnosis; Nonspecific interstitial pneumonia; Usual interstitial pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; KAPPA STATISTICS; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG PARENCHYMA; PATHOLOGIST; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; COMMUNITY MEDICINE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; PHYSICIANS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 34248372493     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: 15354970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.200606-833OC     Document Type: Article

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