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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Feb 12.
Published in final edited form as: J Anal Toxicol. 2019 Mar 1;43(2):149–153. doi: 10.1093/jat/bky075

Table I.

Classification using (a) 200 ng/mL strips (COT200) and (b) 10 ng/mL strips (COT10)

(a) LC tandem mass spectrometry (b) LC tandem mass spectrometry
Total cotinine >200 ng/mL Total cotinine <200 ng/mL Total cotinine >10 ng/mL Total cotinine <10 ng/mL
Test strip positive (%) 199 (49.8) 16 (4) 146 (36.5) 25 (6.3)
Test strip negative (%) 1 (0.25) 184 (46) 2 (0.5) 227 (56.8)
Sensitivity = 99.5% Sensitivity = 98.7%
Specificity = 92.0% Specificity = 90.1%
Positive predictive value = 92.6% Positive predictive value = 85.4%
Negative predictive value = 99.5% Negative predictive value = 99.2%
Accuracy = 95.8% Accuracy = 93.3%
n = 400 n = 400
Agreement between both readers: 99.4% Agreement between both readers: 97.9%

All tabulated results are from the Primary reader.