Assessing Concordance of Results: A Comparative Study of the Manual and Automated Urinalysis Methods

Table 2

Comparison between manual and automated pH results.

Variable										Number ()		value
pH	Automated
Manual	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0
5.0	1	1	5	4						11
5.5		1	7	6						14
6.0	2		4	7	1	1				15
6.5			1	4						5	0.109	<0.001
7.0			2		2					4
7.5			1		7	2				10
8.0					2		1			3
8.5					3	1				4
9.0						1				1

Bold numbers represent cases within the same grade agreement, italic numbers represent one-grade difference, and underlined numbers represent 1.5 to 2-grade differences. value > 0.05, Kappa is not significant and there is no agreement between methods.