This does not alter our adherence to the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, and the results were obtained with all the required ethical standards and objectivity. All the authors were paid for their work. Anna Bręborowicz is the StethoMe content consultant and coordinated the recordings at the hospital. Adam Biniakowski is employed by StethoMe. The commercial affiliation of HH-D,JK, ABi did not play a role in our study.Ĭompeting interests: Honorata Hafke-Dys and Jędrzej Kociński are employed by both Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and the company StethoMe, and are shareholders of StethoMe. The specific roles of these authors are articulated in the ‘author contributions’ section. The funder provided support in the form of salaries for authors HH-D, ABr, PK, JK, ABi, but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish,or preparation of the manuscript. All authors were paid for their work by StethoMe, which is the grantee. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.ĭata Availability: All relevant data are within the paper and its Supporting Information files.įunding: This work was supported by a grant from The National Centre of Research and Development (NCRD) in Poland and the European Union under Sub-Measure 1.1.1 of the Operational Programme Smart Growth (PO IR) “Industrial R&D carried out by enterprises” (Fast Track), agreement no.

Received: Accepted: JPublished: August 12, 2019Ĭopyright: © 2019 Hafke-Dys et al. Wu, University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital, UNITED STATES Citation: Hafke-Dys H, Bręborowicz A, Kleka P, Kociński J, Biniakowski A (2019) The accuracy of lung auscultation in the practice of physicians and medical students.

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