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Interstitial Lung Disease: Sensitivity and Specificity

Introduction: The below accuracies will be for non-Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis types of ILD.

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The sensitivity and specificity of findings for Interstitial Lung Disease are listed below. See the left navigation bar to change the display.

Sensitive Findings

Finding SensitivitySpecificity Comments, Study
Clinical diagnosis Edit 88.8%40%

Clinical diagnosis includes: history, HRCT, and bronchoscopy (gold standard is lung biopsy).

Community patients referred for further definitive diagnostic evaluation of new-onset, untreated nonspecific ILD.

Study: Chest. 1999 Nov;116(5):1168-74. PMID: 10559072

Negative Findings

Finding SensitivitySpecificity Comments, Study
High-Resolution Chest CT (HRCT) Edit 59%40%

Community patients referred for further definitive diagnostic evaluation of new-onset, untreated nonspecific ILD.

Study: Chest. 1999 Nov;116(5):1168-74. PMID: 10559072

 

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