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. 2011 Oct 28;11:146. doi: 10.1186/1471-2288-11-146

Table 4.

Sensivity, specificity and agreement for diabetes mellitus and hypertension.

TN FN FP TP Inter-observers agreement
kappa (CI 95%)
Sensitivity %
(CI 95%)
χ2
p-value
Specificity %
(CI 95%)
χ2
p-value
Diagnostic agreement
kappa (CI 95%)
Diabetes 390 2 2 421 0.988 (0.977 - 0.998) 99.53 (98.29 - 99.87) 99.49 (98.16 - 99.86) 0.990 (0.981 - 1)

- Male 188 1 1 207 0.985 (0.968 - 1) 99.52 (97.33 - 99.92) 1* 99.52 (97.34 - 99.92) 1* 0.990 (0.976 - 1)
- Female 202 1 1 214 0.990 (0.977 - 1) 99.54 (97.41 - 99.92) 99.53 (97.40 - 99.92) 0.990 (0.977 - 1)

- Age < 70 198 1 1 207 0.980 (0.961 - 1) 99.52 (97.33 - 99.92) 1* 99.50 (97.21 - 99.91) 1* 0.990 (0.977 - 1)
- Age ≥ 70 192 1 1 214 0.995 (0.985 - 1) 99.54 (97.41 - 99.92) 99.48 (97.12 - 99.91) 0.990 (0.977 - 1)

Hypertension 254 72 8 415 0.941 (0.916 - 0.967) 85.22 (81.79 - 88.09) 96.95 (94.09 - 98.45) 0.778 (0.732 - 0.823)

- Male 32 32 3 172 0.937 (0.897 - 0.978) 96.95 (94.09 - 98.45) 0.634 97.30 (92.35 - 99.08) 1* 0.770 (0.700 - 0.841)
- Female 40 40 5 243 0.944 (0.911 - 0.977) 85.87 (81.33 - 89.45) 96.69 (92.48 - 98.58) 0.783 (0.724 - 0.842)

- Age < 70 119 18 5 173 0.96 (0.928 - 0.992) 90.58 (85.6 - 93.96) 0.007 95.97 (90.91 - 98.27) 0.482* 0.850 (0.791 - 0.909)
- Age ≥ 70 135 54 3 242 0.926 (0.888 - 0.964) 81.76 (76.96 - 85.74) 97.83 (93.80 - 99.26) 0.724 (0.660 - 0.789)

- Without DM 232 46 7 312 0.947 (0.921 - 0.974) 87.15 (83.29 - 90.23) 0.045 97.07 (94.08 - 98.57) 0.526* 0.947 (0.921 - 0.974)
- With DM 22 26 1 103 0.882 (0.781 - 0.983) 79.85 (72.11 - 85.86) 95.65 (79.01 - 99.23) 0.522 (0.376 - 0.668)

* Fisher's exact bilateral test; TP: true positive; FP: false positive; TN: true negative; FN: false negative; CI 95%: confidence interval at 95%; DM: diabetes mellitus.