The Effectiveness of Dipstick for the Detection of Urinary Tract Infection

Table 5

Concordance between “nitrite-positive or leucocyte esterase-positive” results and quantitative urine culture results.

NIT or LE	Culture
	Positive	Negative	Agreement	Kappa	95% CI	value
Positive	47 (10.9%)	100 (23.3%)	72.49	0.30	0.21–0.39
Negative	18 (4.2%)	264 (61.5%)

NIT = nitrite, LE = leucocyte esterase.