Inter-reader variability when applying the 2013 Fleischner guidelines for potential solitary subsolid lung nodules

Acta Radiologica

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1180-1186

  Penn, Alex ^a   Ma, Mingming ^a   Chou, Benjamin B ^a   Tseng, Jeffrey R ^a   Phan, Peter ^a  

^a SANTA CLARA VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CT spiral; decision analysis; lung; thorax

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DECISION THEORY;

CLINICAL PRACTICES; CT SPIRALS; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; LUNG; MANAGEMENT DECISIONS; READER VARIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITIES; THORAX;

DECISION MAKING;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; INJURY; INTER READER VARIABILITY; KAPPA STATISTICS; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG LESION; LUNG NODULE; LUNG SARCOIDOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84946923433     PISSN: 02841851     EISSN: 16000455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0284185114551975     Document Type: Article

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