Six board-certified radiologists at 2 academic children's hospitals (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia [n = 3] and Boston Children's Hospital [n = 3]) interpreted the same 110 chest radiographs ...

The paper is titled "Relationship Between Chest Radiography Results and Antibiotic Initiation in Community-Acquired Pneumonia Management by General Practitioners." A prospective cross-sectional ...

Overall, 35 (1 %) patients died within 30 days of discharge with the majority in those with chest radiograph confirmation of pneumonia (27 vs 8 with normal radiograph, p = 0.004; Table 3).

Chest radiograph has shown high efficacy of the 9-PCV vaccines against pneumonia. The vaccine can also be used as an epidemiological tool to determine the amount of pneumonia due to Pneumococcus.