Impact of training on observer variation in chest radiographs of children with severe pneumonia

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 675-681

  Patel, Archana B ^a,b,c   Amin, Amit ^b   Sortey, S Z ^a   Athawale, Ambarish ^b   Kulkarni, Hemant ^b  

^a GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b Lata Medical Research Foundation   (India)

^c NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Pneumonia; Radiography; Software; Training

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; KAPPA STATISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PNEUMONIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; X RAY FILM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; INTERVENTION STUDIES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PNEUMONIA; PROBABILITY; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 34948870883     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: 00196061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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