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Research ArticleOriginal Research

Inter-Rater Agreement of Auscultation, Palpable Fremitus, and Ventilator Waveform Sawtooth Patterns Between Clinicians

Marc P Berry, Joan-Daniel Martí and George Ntoumenopoulos
Respiratory Care October 2016, 61 (10) 1374-1383; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4187/respcare.04214
Marc P Berry
Physiotherapy Department, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, King's Health Partners, London, United Kingdom.
Physiotherapy Department, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Hampshire, United Kingdom.
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Joan-Daniel Martí
Pulmonary Critical Care Unit and Animal Experimentation Division, Thorax Institute, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain, and the Centro de Investigación en Red-Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Mallorca, Spain.
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George Ntoumenopoulos
Physiotherapy Department, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, King's Health Partners, London, United Kingdom.
University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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