Bulletin of the World Health Organization
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Bull. World Health Organ. · May 2005
Standardized interpretation of paediatric chest radiographs for the diagnosis of pneumonia in epidemiological studies.
Although radiological pneumonia is used as an outcome measure in epidemiological studies, there is considerable variability in the interpretation of chest radiographs. A standardized method for identifying radiological pneumonia would facilitate comparison of the results of vaccine trials and epidemiological studies of pneumonia. ⋯ Using standardized definitions and training, it is possible to achieve agreement in identifying radiological pneumonia, thus facilitating the comparison of results of epidemiological studies that use radiological pneumonia as an outcome.