Research Article
Evaluation of Four Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Test Kits Used at the Enyiresi Government Hospital in the Eastern Region of Ghana
Table 2
Diagnostic performance of malaria rapid diagnostic test kits.
| | RDT kits | Sensitivity (95% CI) | Specificity (95% CI) | PPV | NPV | Cohen’s kappa |
| | First Response | 91.8 (86.2–95.5) | 79.3 (68.9–87.4) | 89.4 (83.5–93.7) | 83.3 (73.2–90.8) | 0.718 | | Carestart | 92.3 (87.0–96.0) | 93.9 (86.3–98.0) | 96.4 (92.3–98.9) | 86.5 (77.6–92.8) | 0.845 | | SD Bioline | 96.2 (91.8–98.6) | 91.5 (83.2–96.5) | 95.5 (91.0–98.2) | 92.6 (84.6–97.2) | 0.879 | | ABON | 93.0 (87.7–96.4) | 82.9 (73.0–90.3) | 91.2 (85.7–95.1) | 86.1 (76.5–92.8) | 0.765 |
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CI: confidence interval; PPV: positive predictive value; NPV: negative predictive value.
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