The Effectiveness of Dipstick for the Detection of Urinary Tract Infection

Table 6

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

NIT and LE	Culture
	Positive	Negative	Agreement	Kappa	95% CI	value
Positive	11 (2.5%)	1 (0.2%)	87.18	0.250	0.127–0.374
Negative	54 (12.6%)	363 (84.6%)

NIT = nitrite, LE = leucocyte esterase.