Listening panel agreement and characteristics of lung sounds digitally recorded from children aged 1-59 months enrolled in the Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health (PERCH) case-control study.
Eric D McCollumDaniel E ParkNora L WatsonW Chris BuckCharatdao BunthiAkash DevendraBernard E EbrukeMounya ElhilaliDimitra EmmanouilidouAnthony J Garcia-PratsLeah GithinjiLokman HossainShabir A MadhiDavid P MooreJustin MulindwaDan OlsonJuliet O AworiWarunee P VandepitteCharl VerweyJames E WestMaria D KnollKatherine L O'BrienDaniel R FeikinLaura L HammitPublished in: BMJ open respiratory research (2017)
Listening panel and case-control data suggests our methodology is feasible, likely valid and that small airway inflammation is common in WHO pneumonia. Digital auscultation may be an important future pneumonia diagnostic in developing countries.