Wheezes crackles and rhonchi: simplifying description of lung sounds increases the agreement on their classification: a study of 12 physicians classification of lung sounds from video recordings

摘要

BackgroundThe European Respiratory Society (ERS) lung sounds repository contains 20 audiovisual recordings of children and adults. The present study aimed at determining the interobserver variation in the classification of sounds into detailed and broader categories of crackles and wheezes.