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

Table 5

Sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values for those cases in which all 3 investigations were performed (𝑛=34).

	Sensitivity	Specificity	Positive predictive value	Negative predictive value
Blood culture vials	0.58	1.0	1.0	0.71
Sterile container	0.47	1.0	1.0	0.61
Tissue sample	0.17	0.98	0.93	0.43