Quantifying Proteinuria in Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy

Table 6

Diagnostic utility of urine dipstick method for detection of significant proteinuria.

Study	Urine dipstick value	Sensitivity (%)	Specificity (%)	Area under receiver operating curve (95% CI)	Positive likelihood ratio	Negative likelihood ratio
Waugh et al. 2005 [4]	1+	51	78	*	2.27	0.635
Dwyer et al. 2008 [5]	1+	41	100	0.71 (0.64–0.77)	#	0.59
Park et al. 2013 [11]	1+	85	95	0.93 (0.88–0.99)	17	0.15
Present study 2014	1+	59	66.7	0.66 (0.54–76)	1.42	0.34

not calculated in the study.
indicates very high values, but cannot be calculated because of empty cell in 2 × 2 table.