Table 1.
Number of the 12 observers who agreed on auscultation findings in 20 video cases
| Case | Age, years | Sex | Diagnosis | Inspiratory crackles | Expiratory crackles | Inspiratory wheezes |
Expiratory wheezes | Pleural rub |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 | M | Asthma | 9 | 8 | 11 | 8 | 0 |
| 2 | 9 | F | Asthma | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 0 |
| 3 | 10 | M | Bronchitis | 9 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 0 |
| 4 | ½ | M | Bronchiolitis | 1 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 0 |
| 5 | 52 | F | COPD | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 0 |
| 6 | 4 | M | Bronchiectasis | 1 | 1 | 11 | 12 | 0 |
| 7 | 5 | F | Asthma, atelectasis | 4 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 0 |
| 8 | 61 | F | Emphysema, lung cancer | 1 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 0 |
| 9 | 78 | M | Lung cancer | 9 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 0 |
| 10 | 88 | F | Asthma and COPD | 0 | 1 | 11 | 12 | 0 |
| 11 | 2 | M | Pneumonia | 11 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 12 | 78 | M | Pulmonary fibrosis | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 13 | 6 | F | Recurrent LRTI | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| 14 | 3 | F | Acute LRTI | 3 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 0 |
| 15* | 3 | F | Pneumothorax | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 16 | 77 | M | Pulmonary fibrosis, pneumonia | 11 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 17 | 69 | M | Pleural haemorrhage | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 18* | 71 | M | Pleural effusion | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 19* | 79 | M | Lung cancer | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | 66 | F | Radiation pneumonitis | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bold font is used when 7 or more of the 12 observers agreed.
*Eleven out of the 12 observers agreed on no adventitious sound in this case.
COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; LRTI, lower respiratory tract infection.