Table 3.

Accordance of the tool’s disease assessments and the physicians’ findings ordered to the respective treatment recommendation

	Agreement (%)	Cohen’s kappa	p-valuea	Sensitivity (%)	Specificity (%)	PPVb	NPVc	Prevalenced (%)
A
Neurological emergency	77.2	− 0.01	0.71	0	77.5	0	99.5	0.4
Severe RTIe	84.0	0.3	< 0.01	54.6	87.0	30.0	94.9	9.3
GI-infectionf with severe dehydration	93.3	0.08	0.09	16.7	95.2	8.3	97.8	2.5
Inability to drink/breastfeed	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Severe febrile disease	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
B
Febrile disease	78.9	0.51	< 0.01	83.2	68.6	86.3	63.2	70.5
Moderate RTIe	63.7	0.05	0.21	27.3	77.8	32.1	73.5	27.9
GI-infectionf with some dehydration	81.9	0.25	< 0.01	66.7	82.9	20.8	97.4	6.3
Dysentery	84.0	0.17	< 0.01	71.4	84.3	12.2	99.0	3.0
C
Mild RTIe	62.5	−0.07	0.87	17.0	75.5	16.7	76.0	22.4
GI-infectionf with no dehydration	73.4	0.2	< 0.01	27.4	89.7	48.6	77.7	26.2

A = requiring emergency treatment

B = requiring causal treatment

C = requiring home care

^ap-value for Cohen’s Kappa

^bPPV = positive predictive value

^cNPV = negative predictive value

^dPrevalence of the disease assessments made by the physicians

^eRTI = respiratory tract infection

^fGI-infection = gastrointestinal infection