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Inter-Reader Agreement in ILO Readings of Radiographs for PneumoconiosisInter-Reader Agreement • October 26th, 2011
The International Labor Organization’s International System (ILO system) for Classification of Radiographs for Pneumoconiosis has been accepted by the scientific community for use in studies of pneumoconiosis. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) recommends using multiple ILO trained readers to increase accuracy and precision of readings. The significance of between-reader agreement on the estimates of prevalence of ILO abnormalities in medical screening programs in general and screenings of former nuclear weapons workers in particular has not been studied extensively. We screened over 2,650 workers from two sites in Iowa with a chest x-ray, spirometry and sensitization to beryllium as part of the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) funded Former Nuclear Weapons Worker Medical Screening Program (DoE FWP). The films were reviewed according to ILO (rev. 2000) guidelines by three occupational medicine physicians (clinician readers) and the prevalence of parenchyma
