Open AccessEvaluating the Interrater Agreement and Acceptability of a New Reference Tool for Assessing Respiratory Rate in Children under Five with Cough and/or Difficulty Breathing
Author(s) -
Ann-Sophie Stratil,
Charlotte Ward,
Tedila Habte,
Alice Maurel,
Max Antson,
Eliydenova,
Kevin Baker
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of tropical pediatrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.464
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1465-3664
pISSN - 0142-6338
DOI - 10.1093/tropej/fmab046
Subject(s) - medicine , inter rater reliability , gold standard (test) , kappa , respiratory rate , cohen's kappa , breathing , pediatrics , anesthesia , statistics , heart rate , mathematics , rating scale , geometry , blood pressure
Manual assessment of respiratory rate (RR) in children is unreliable, but remains the main method to diagnose pneumonia in low-resource settings. While automated RR counters offer a potential solution, there is currently no gold standard to validate these diagnostic aids. A video-based reference tool is proposed that allows users to annotate breaths and distortions including movement periods, allowing the exclusion of distortions from the computation of RR measures similar to how new diagnostic aids account for distortions automatically. This study evaluated the interrater agreement and acceptability of the new reference tool.