Radiologic Diagnosis and Hospitalization among Children with Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia: A Prospective Cohort Study

Table 5

Agreement between senior radiologists in reading chest x-ray films of children with severe pneumonia, Hawassa, Ethiopia.

Finding	R1; N ()	R2; N ()	Concordance; N ()	R3; Total n/ N,	Kappa	p-value
Film quality, %Adequate	91 (74.6)	85 (69.7)	103 (85.5)	28/43, 65.1	0.634	< 0.001
Consolidation present	27 (22.1)	12 (9.8)	101 (84.2)	13/41, 31.7	0.435	< 0.001
Infiltration present	20 (16.4)	13 (10.7)	99 (82.5)	6/41, 14.6	0.267	0.008
Haziness observed	12 (9.8)	3 (2.5)	111 (92.5)	2/41, 4.9	0.375	0.001
Effusion seen	3 (2.5)	3 (2.5)	118 (98.3)	0/41, 0	0.658	0.001
Atelectasis detected	0	0	120 (100)	-	-	-
Fibrosis present	0	0	120 (100)	-	-	-
Pleural thickening seen	0	0	120 (100)	-	-	-
Hyperinflation observed	1 (0.8)	0	120 (100)	-	-	-
WHO Diagnosis of abnormal CXR	58 (47.5)	30 (24.6)	86 (71.7)	21/41, 51.2	0.395	≤ 0.001

†Fisher’s exact test; CXR, chest X-ray; agreement between R1 and R2; ‡concordance between R1 and R2.