Table 3.

Positive predictive values of the combination of test results

		Positive predictive value–median (CI)
Model	Posterior estimates	STD and MOL +ve	Std +ve and MOL –ve	STD –ve and MOL +ve	STD and MOL –ve
A	IN	0.99 (0.98–1)	0.93 (0.73–1)	0.96 (0.87–0.99)	0.37 (0.2–0.66)
	DE	0.99 (0.95–1)	0.99 (0.83–1)	0.99 (0.92–1)	0.75 (0.34–0.99)
B	IN	0.9 (0.68–0.99)	0.34 (0.02–0.84)	0.58 (0.13–0.91)	0.06 (0.002–0.3)
	DE	0.72 (0.09–0.98)	0.36 (0.004–0.98)	0.61 (0.02–0.99)	0.2 (0.006–0.87)

STD, standard blood culture methods; MOL, molecular methods; CI, credible intervals (2.5–97.5%); IN, conditional independence assumption; DE, conditional dependence assumption