A Cross-Sectional Study on Subjective Fever Assessment in Children by Palpation: Are Fathers as Reliable as Mothers?

Table 5

Sensitivity and specificity for fever detection by palpation.

	Sensitivity (95% CI)(%)	Specificity (95% CI)(%)
Mother + father (n = 338)	86.4 (81.2, 90.7)	48.7 (39.4, 58.1)
Mother (n = 170)	84.7 (76.6, 90.8)	54.2 (40.8, 67.3)
Father (n = 168)	88.2 (80.6, 93.6)	43.1 (30.2, 56.8)