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ArticleRadiologia brasileira

Interobserver agreement regarding the Fleischner Society diagnostic criteria for usual interstitial pneumonia patterns on computed tomography.

Stephanie Sander Westphalen, Felipe Soares Torres, Mateus Samuel Tonetto, Juliana Fischman Zampieri, Giovanni Brondani Torri, Tiago Severo Garcia

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Article in Radiologia brasileira. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 26% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Stephanie Sander WestphalenRadiology Department, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9941-7065
Felipe Soares TorresDepartment of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3110-588X
Mateus Samuel TonettoRadiology Department, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8191-221X
Juliana Fischman ZampieriRadiology Department, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2536-3874
Giovanni Brondani TorriRadiology Department, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1936-1370
Tiago Severo GarciaRadiology Department, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6651-7462
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul · BRHospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre · BRUniversity of Toronto · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Objective: To assess interobserver agreement among radiologists regarding the current Fleischner Society diagnostic criteria for usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) patterns on computed tomography (CT). Materials and Methods: Using the Fleischner Society criteria for UIP CT patterns, five raters, working independently, categorized the high-resolution CT (HRCT) scans of 44 patients with interstitial lung disease who underwent lung biopsy. The raters also evaluated the presence, extent, and distribution of the most relevant imaging findings, as well as indicating their level of confidence in the most likely diagnosis and in up to three diagnostic hypotheses. Results: There was moderate to substantial interobserver agreement regarding the UIP patterns on HRCT-kappa statistic (κ) = 0.59-0.61. Interobserver agreement for the binary scores was substantial (κ = 0.77-0.79), whereas that for the presence of honeycombing was almost perfect (κ = 0.81-0.96). There was agreement regarding at least one of the three diagnostic hypotheses in only 36.4% of the cases. For the level of confidence in the most likely diagnosis, there was only slight to fair agreement (κ = 0.19-0.21). Conclusion: Interobserver agreement regarding the current Fleischner Society CT criteria for UIP was moderate to substantial among raters with varying levels of experience. There was only slight to fair agreement regarding the diagnostic hypotheses and for the level of confidence in the most likely diagnosis.

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Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis/diagnostic imaginginterstitial/diagnosisLung diseasesObserver variationTomographyX-ray computed/methods

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