Idiopathic interstitial pneumonia: what is the effect of a multidisciplinary approach to diagnosis?

By K. Flaherty, T. King, G. Raghu, J. Lynch, T. Colby, W. Travis, B. Gross, E. Kazerooni, G. Toews, Qi Long and 4 more. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2004

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Subfields: Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

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Diagnosis of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. An Official ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT Clinical Practice Guideline (2018, background): “If a specific diagnosis is not made or no potential cause for ILD is identified, then clinical findings and HRCT are considered during MDD to either ascertain or exclude the diagnosis of IPF (Figure 9) (83).”
An official American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society statement: Update of the international multidisciplinary classification of the idiopathic interstitial pneumonias. (2013, background): “However, agreement between radiologists and pathologists has improved substantially with accumulated experience (6) and, especially, with integration of clinical data in a multidisciplinary conference (4, 7).”
Interstitial lung disease guideline (2008, background): “encouraged, there is improved interobserver agreement among expert clinicians, radiologists and pathologists.(6) Importantly,”
Diagnostic criteria for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a Fleischner Society White Paper. (2017, neutral): “In fibrotic ILD, multiple studies 126,127 have shown that interobserver agreement among clinicians, radiologists, and patho logists increases substantially following multidisciplinary discussion, with an increase in diagnostic confidence and a change in the histological diagnosis in up to 20% of…”