Comparative Performance Evaluation of Routine Malaria Diagnosis at Ho Municipal Hospital

Table 3

Interrater diagnostic performance criteria for rapid and presumptive diagnosis of malaria with field microscopy as a gold standard.

Parameter	AUC (ROC)	value	Kappa	Youden
Total population
Rapid Diagnostic Test	0.697	<0.0001	0.457	0.395
Presumptive diagnosis	0.506	0.7304	−0.007	0.013
Male participants
Rapid Diagnostic Test	0.702	0.0035	0.492	0.404
Presumptive diagnosis	0.504	0.8891	0.005	0.009
Female participants
Rapid Diagnostic Test	0.695	0.0005	0.436	0.390
Presumptive diagnosis	0.512	0.6156	−0.013	0.023

AUC: area under curve and ROC: receiver operative characteristic. Kappa <0.20: poor, 0.41–0.60: moderate, 0.61–0.80: good, and 0.81–1: very good. is significant at 0.05.