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