Clinical Study
Cardiac Auscultatory Skills of Academic Family Physicians: Strength of Association with an Academic Pediatric Cardiologist
Table 2
Auscultatory findings of family physicians and pediatric cardiologist.
| | Pediatric cardiologist | | | Normal | Innocent murmur | Pathologic murmur | Cannot decide | Total |
| Family physicians | Normal | 383 (53.6%) | 36 (5.0%) | 0 | 0 | 419 (58.6%) | Innocent murmur | 32 (4.5%) | 191 (26.7%) | 5 (0.7%) | 0 | 228 (31.9%) | Pathologic murmur | 8 (1.1%) | 26 (3.6%) | 19 (2.7%) | 1 (0.1%) | 54 (7.6%) | Cannot decide | 2 (0.3%) | 11 (1.5%) | 1 (0.1%) | 0 | 14 (2.0%) |
| Total | 425 (59.4%) | 264 (36.9%) | 25 (3.5%) | 1 (0.1%) | 715 (100%) |
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