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bovine respiratory disease brd presents challenge farmers globe significant impacts welfare productivity also diagnosis prove challenging several clinical scoring systems developed aid farmers making consistent early diagnosis 2 examples wisconsin wcs california calif systems neither systems developed use temperate environment environment may lead changes brd presentation weightings cut offs designed one environmental presentation brd may appropriate used temperate climate additionally interpretation scores recorded varies studies may also influence conclusions hence objective work investigate sensitivity se specificity sp tests temperate climate investigate influence varying interpretation performance wcs prospective study 98 commercial spring calving dairy farms recruited 40 randomly 58 targeted visited thoracic ultrasound wcs performed 20 randomly sampled calves 4 6 weeks age farm subset 32 farms calif score also undertaken data used hierarchical bayesian latent class model estimate se sp 5 different interpretations wisconsin clinical score one interpretation california clinical score total 1936 calves examined se wisconsin score varied 0336 0577 depending interpretation used sp varied 0943 0977 se california score 0529 95 bayesian credible interval bci 0403 0651 sp 0903 95 bci 0883 0922 conclusion performance clinical scores temperate environment similar previously published work extreme climates however performance varied widely depending score interpretation authors justify usage particular clinical score interpretation improve clarity publications