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TABLE 5.

Sensitivity, specificity, and likelihood ratios (LR) of the McMurray's test with confidence intervals (CI).

Study	Sensitivity (%) CI (%)			Specificity (%) CI (%)			LR+ (CI 95%)	LR− (CI 95%)
	Medial & Lateral combined = meniscal tear	Medial meniscus	Lateral meniscus	Medial & Lateral combined = meniscal tear	Medial meniscus	Lateral meniscus
Akseki et al³	63 (55–71)	67 (59–75)	53 (45–61)	83 (77–89)	69 (62–76)	88 (83–93)	3.71 (3.19–4.13)	0.45 (0.39–0.52)
Anderson & Lipscomb⁵	58^* (48–68)			29^* (20–38)			0.82 (0.5–1.3)^**	1.45 (0.4–4.9)^**
Boeree & Ackroyd¹⁹	27^* (21–33)	29.3 (23–36)	25 (19–31)	89^* (85–93)	87.3 (83–92)	89.8 (86–94)	2.31^*	0.81^*
Corea et al⁴	58.5 (48–69)	65 (55–74)	52 (41–62)	93.4 (88–98)	93 (88–98)	94 (88–99)	8.86 (7.17–10.91)	0.44 (0.36–0.54)
Evans et al²³	33^* (24–42)	16 (9–23)	50 (40–60)	96^* (92–100)	98 (95–100)	94 (89–99)	8.33^*	0.70^*
Fowler & Lubliner²²	29^* (22–36)			96^* (93–99)			7.25^*	0.74^*
Karachalios et al²¹		48	65		94	86	8.00	0.553
							4.64	0.40
Kurosaka et al⁶	37 (30–44)			77 (70–84)			1.61^0.82^
Manzotti et al²⁰		88	79		50	20	1.76	0.24
							0.98	1.05
Noble & Erat²⁵	63 (56–70)			57 (50–64)			1.50 (1.1–2.1)^**	0.60 (0.5–0.9)^**
Sae-Jung et al²⁴	70.6 (55–82)	70	68.2	82.49 (55–95)	60.7	47.8	4.00 (1.4–11.3)	0.358 (0.22–0.56)

When confidence intervals are not present, the CIs were incalculable due to absence of raw data.

^**

No raw data available to calculate CIs values taken from Solomon et al³¹.

CIs calculated using formulas from Sackett et al³².