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Surgical sampling behavior correlates with presence of infection
| No. of specimens taken | No. of patients with the following histology result:
|
LR for positive result | Posttest probability of infection (%) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Negative | |||
| 1 or 2 | 2 | 59 | 0.21 | 3.3 |
| 3, 4, 5, or 6 | 29 | 184 | 0.98 | 13.6 |
| 7 or 8 | 10 | 13 | 4.80 | 43.4 |
| Total | 41 | 256 | ||
