External quality assurance of chest X-ray interpretation to strengthen diagnosis of childhood TB.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Chest X-ray (CXR) misinterpretation negatively affects the accuracy of childhood TB diagnosis. External quality assurance (EQA) could strengthen CXR reading skills. We assessed the uptake, performance and challenges of an EQA of CXR interpretation within the childhood TB-Speed decentralisation study in six resource-limited countries.

Methods

Every quarter, TB suggestive or unreadable CXRs and 10% of remaining CXRs from children with presumptive TB were selected for blind re-reading by national re-readers. The proportion of CXRs selected for EQA and re-read assessed the uptake. The performance was assessed by the proportion of discordant interpretations and the sensitivity and specificity of clinicians' vs re-readers' interpretations. Challenges were retrieved from

SUBMITTER: Melingui BF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11467854 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature