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Interobserver Variation in Applying a Radiographic Definition for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)

NCT01704066 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 286

Last updated 2012-12-21

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Summary

The original American-European Consensus Conference (AECC) definition of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) required bilateral infiltrates consistent with pulmonary edema on frontal chest X-ray (CXR), but there is poor inter-observer reliability in interpreting CXR using this definition among intensivists and radiologists.

As a result, the newly published Berlin definition of ARDS specified that the CXR criterion should include bilateral opacities consistent with pulmonary edema not fully explained by effusions, lobar/lung collapse, or nodules/masses on CXR.

In order to improve inter-observer agreement, the panel have also developed a set of CXRs judged as consistent, inconsistent, or equivocal for the diagnosis of ARDS.

The objective of this study is to investigate the impact of this training set on inter-observer reliability in applying the radiographic definition for ARDS.

Conditions

  • Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Interventions

OTHER

Training and education

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Society of Critical Care Medicine, China

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Bin Du, MD · Peking Union Medical College Hospital

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-10-31
Primary Completion
2012-12-31
Completion
2012-12-31

Countries

  • China

Study Locations

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