Comparative Performance Evaluation of Routine Malaria Diagnosis at Ho Municipal Hospital

Table 1

Performance of rapid, presumptive, and microscopic diagnostic test using the composite and microscopy as gold standards.

Parameter	Sensitivity	Specificity	PPV	NPV
Composite as a standard
Rapid Diagnostic Test	4.78	72.22	28.57	24.62
Presumptive diagnosis	43.48	23.55	4.52	83.33
Field microscopy	4.55	82.28	41.67	23.64
Microscopy as a standard
Rapid Diagnostic Test	62.50	92.73	42.86	96.59
Presumptive diagnosis	70.83	25.82	7.69	91.03

Data is presented as percentages. PPV: positive predictive value and NPV: negative predictive value.