Clinical parameters
Only PROs showed moderate Pearson correlations with the
paediatrician’s rattle score (GC-MS dataset: r=0.553, p<0.001;
SIFT-MS dataset: r=0.561, p<0.001). This clinical parameter
differed significantly between recovered, mild rattling, moderate
rattling and severe rattling infants (GC-MS dataset: p<0.001;
SIFT-MS dataset: p<0.001).