TY - JOUR
T1 - International management platform for children's interstitial lung disease (chILD-EU)
AU - and the other chILD-EU collaborators
AU - Griese, Matthias
AU - Seidl, Elias
AU - Hengst, Meike
AU - Reu, Simone
AU - Rock, Hans
AU - Anthony, Gisela
AU - Kiper, Nural
AU - Emiralioğlu, Nagehan
AU - Snijders, Deborah
AU - Goldbeck, Lutz
AU - Leidl, Reiner
AU - Ley-Zaporozhan, Julia
AU - Krüger-Stollfuss, Ingrid
AU - Kammer, Birgit
AU - Wesselak, Traudl
AU - Eismann, Claudia
AU - Schams, Andrea
AU - Neuner, Doerthe
AU - MacLean, Morag
AU - Nicholson, Andrew G
AU - Lauren, McCann
AU - Clement, Annick
AU - Epaud, Ralph
AU - de Blic, Jacques
AU - Ashworth, Michael
AU - Aurora, Paul
AU - Calder, Alistair
AU - Wetzke, Martin
AU - Kappler, Matthias
AU - Cunningham, Steve
AU - Schwerk, Nicolaus
AU - Bush, Andy
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PY - 2017/11/3
Y1 - 2017/11/3
N2 - BACKGROUND: Children's interstitial lung diseases (chILD) cover many rare entities, frequently not diagnosed or studied in detail. There is a great need for specialised advice and for internationally agreed subclassification of entities collected in a register.Our objective was to implement an international management platform with independent multidisciplinary review of cases at presentation for long-term follow-up and to test if this would allow for more accurate diagnosis. Also, quality and reproducibility of a diagnostic subclassification system were assessed using a collection of 25 complex chILD cases.METHODS: A web-based chILD management platform with a registry and biobank was successfully designed and implemented.RESULTS: Over a 3-year period, 575 patients were included for observation spanning a wide spectrum of chILD. In 346 patients, multidisciplinary reviews were completed by teams at five international sites (Munich 51%, London 12%, Hannover 31%, Ankara 1% and Paris 5%). In 13%, the diagnosis reached by the referring team was not confirmed by peer review. Among these, the diagnosis initially given was wrong (27%), imprecise (50%) or significant information was added (23%).The ability of nine expert clinicians to subcategorise the final diagnosis into the chILD-EU register classification had an overall exact inter-rater agreement of 59% on first assessment and after training, 64%. Only 10% of the 'wrong' answers resulted in allocation to an incorrect category. Subcategorisation proved useful but training is needed for optimal implementation.CONCLUSIONS: We have shown that chILD-EU has generated a platform to help the clinical assessment of chILD.TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: Results, NCT02852928.
AB - BACKGROUND: Children's interstitial lung diseases (chILD) cover many rare entities, frequently not diagnosed or studied in detail. There is a great need for specialised advice and for internationally agreed subclassification of entities collected in a register.Our objective was to implement an international management platform with independent multidisciplinary review of cases at presentation for long-term follow-up and to test if this would allow for more accurate diagnosis. Also, quality and reproducibility of a diagnostic subclassification system were assessed using a collection of 25 complex chILD cases.METHODS: A web-based chILD management platform with a registry and biobank was successfully designed and implemented.RESULTS: Over a 3-year period, 575 patients were included for observation spanning a wide spectrum of chILD. In 346 patients, multidisciplinary reviews were completed by teams at five international sites (Munich 51%, London 12%, Hannover 31%, Ankara 1% and Paris 5%). In 13%, the diagnosis reached by the referring team was not confirmed by peer review. Among these, the diagnosis initially given was wrong (27%), imprecise (50%) or significant information was added (23%).The ability of nine expert clinicians to subcategorise the final diagnosis into the chILD-EU register classification had an overall exact inter-rater agreement of 59% on first assessment and after training, 64%. Only 10% of the 'wrong' answers resulted in allocation to an incorrect category. Subcategorisation proved useful but training is needed for optimal implementation.CONCLUSIONS: We have shown that chILD-EU has generated a platform to help the clinical assessment of chILD.TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: Results, NCT02852928.
KW - Journal Article
U2 - 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2017-210519
DO - 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2017-210519
M3 - Article
C2 - 29056600
JO - Thorax
JF - Thorax
SN - 0040-6376
ER -