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