Parental Perception of Childhood Anaemia and Efficiency of Instrument Assisted Pallor Detection among Mothers in Southeast Nigeria: A Field Validation Study
Table 2
The distribution of clinical pallor and low haemoglobin in the four study localities and sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive value of HB-Anae in detecting anaemia compared to HemoCue.
Locality (n)
Proportion with pallor detected at any site by parents using HB-Anae
Proportion with pallor detected at any site by healthcare workers
Proportion with low haemoglobin using HemoCue 301 (<11g/dl)