Idiopathic interstitial pneumonia: do community and academic physicians agree on diagnosis?

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

Treatment and prognoses of diffuse parenchymal lung diseases (DPLDs) varies by diagnosis. Obtaining a uniform diagnosis among observers is difficult.

Objectives

Evaluate diagnostic agreement between academic and community-based physicians for patients with DPLDs, and determine if an interactive approach between clinicians, radiologists, and pathologists improved diagnostic agreement in community and academic centers.

Methods

Retrospective review of 39 patients with DPLD. A total of 19 participants reviewed cases at 2 community locations and 1 academic location. Information from the history, physical examination, pulmonary function testing, high-resolution computed tomography, and surgical lung biopsy was collected. Data were presented in the same sequential

SUBMITTER: Flaherty KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1899268 | biostudies-literature | 2007 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature