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. 2017 Oct 24;55(11):3227–3235. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01021-17

TABLE 2.

Performance of POC testinga

Scenariob POC result No. with SOC result:
POC sensitivity (95% CI) POC specificity (95% CI)
Positive Negative Indeterminate Invalid/rejectedc Total
A Positive 101 0 1 0 102
Negative 0 214 3 3 220
Total 101 214 4 3 322
B Positive 102 0 102 1.0 1.0
Negative 0 217 217
Total 102 217 319
C Positive 101 1 102 0.9712 (0.9186–0.9901) 0.9953 (0.9741–0.9992)
Negative 3 214 217
Total 104 215 319
a

The two POC technologies had perfect concordance.

b

A, performance of point-of-care (POC) testing compared to standard-of-care (SOC) testing; B, best-case scenario in which all POC results are assumed to be concordant for the indeterminate SOC cases; C, worst-case scenario in which all POC results are assumed to be discordant for the indeterminate SOC cases.

c

Excluded from sensitivity/specificity calculations.