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. 2020 Jan 16;19:28. doi: 10.1186/s12936-020-3110-6

Table 2.

Detection of P. falciparum and diagnostic performance of the csRDT and the uRDT

n TP FP TN FN Sensitivity (%) Specificity % PPV (%) NPV (%) DOR Agreement (κ)
Detection of P. falciparum including non-falciparum species
 uRDT 270 31 2 110 127 19.6 (13.9–26.8) 98.2 (93.1–99.7) 93.9 (78.4–98.9) 46.4 (40.0–53.0) 13.4 (3.1–57.4) 0.15 (0.09–0.21)
 csRDT Pf-line 270 36 5 107 122 22.8 (16.7–30.3) 95.5 (89.4–98.3) 87.8 (73–95.4) 46.7 (79.8–88.8) 6.3 (2.4–16.7) 0.16 (0.09–0.23)
Detection of P. falciparum excluding non-falciparum species
 uRDT 242 31 2 82 127 19.6 (13.9–26.8) 97.6 (90.9–99.6) 93.9 (78.4–98.9) 39.2 (32.6–46.2) 10 (2.3–42.9) 0.13 (0.07–0.13)
 csRDT Pf-line 242 36 2 82 122 22.8 (16.7–30.3) 97.6 (90.9–99.6) 94.7 (80.9–99.1) 40.2 (33.5–47.3) 12.1 (2.8–51.6) 0.15 (0.09–0.15)

n number of samples, TP True Positive, FP False positive, TN True Negative, FN False Negative, Sens sensitivity, Spec specificity, lowCI Lower 95% confidence Interval, UpperCI Upper 95% confidence interval, PPV Positive Predictive Value, NPV Negative Predictive Value, DOR Diagnostics odds ratio, k Kappa value