Research Article
Operator Influence on Blinded Diagnostic Accuracy of Point-of-Care Antigen Testing for Group A Streptococcal Pharyngitis
Table 1
Performance comparison.
| | | Nurse-performed RADT | Technologist-performed RADT |
| | Sensitivity (%) (95% C.I.) | 76.3 (63.4, 86.4) | 81.4 (69.1, 90.3) | | Specificity (%) (95% C.I.) | 96.6 (90.4, 99.3) | 97.7 (92.0, 99.7) | | Negative predictive value (%) (95% C.I.) | 85.9 (77.4, 92.1) | 88.7 (80.6, 94.2) | | Positive predictive value (%) (95% C.I.) | 93.8 (82.8, 98.7) | 96.0 (86.3, 99.5) |
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