Sensitivities, Specificities, and Predictive Values of Microbiological Culture Techniques for the Diagnosis of Prosthetic Joint Infection

Table 3

Sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values.

	Sensitivity	Specificity	Positive predictive value	Negative predictive value
Blood culture vials	0.85	1.0	1.0	0.97
Sterile container	0.26	0.99	0.86	0.85
Tissue sample	0.32	0.99	0.88	0.84