Table 2.

ED attending physician diagnosis agreement with criterion review of pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and/or heart failure (HF) in 79 dyspneic older ED patients. Data are presented as n (%).

	Criterion standard diagnosis present			Criterion standard diagnosis not present
	ED MD agrees	ED MD disagrees (under-diagnosis)	Total present	ED MD agrees	ED MD disagrees (over-diagnosis)	Total not present
Pneumonia	9 (90)	1 (10)	10 (13)	62 (90)	7 (10)	69 (87)
COPD	7 (78)	2 (22)	9 (11)	65 (93)	5 (6)	70 (89)
HF	20 (65)	11 (35)	31 (39)	38 (79)	10 (21)	48 (61)