Table 5 Agreement and discordance of culture versus Xpert and smear stratified by referral type and HIV status
From: Why being an expert – despite xpert –remains crucial for children in high TB burden settings
Culture versus Xpert MTB/RIF results | Culture versus smear results | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
no. with agreement/no. tested | PA (%)/NA (%) | Overall Agreement (%) | Kappa (95% CI) | no. with agreement/no. tested | Overall Agreement (%) | PA (%)/NA (%) | Kappa (95% CI) | |
All children | 270/282 | 45.5/97.8 | 95.7 | 0.44 (0.18–0.70) | 268/282 | 95.0 | 36.4/97.4 | 0.35 (0.09–0.60) |
Inpatient | 105/106 | 66.7/99.5 | 99.1 | 0.66 (0.04–1.00) | 104/106 | 98.1 | 50.0/99.0 | 0.49 (–0.12–1.00) |
Outpatient | 165/176 | 42.1/96.7 | 93.8 | 0.40 (0.13–0.67) | 164/176 | 93.2 | 33.3/96.4 | 0.31 (0.04–0.59) |
HIV positive | 160/167 | 53.3/97.8 | 95.8 | 0.52 (0.21–0.82) | 157/167 | 94.0 | 28.6/96.9 | 0.27 (−0.04–0.57) |
HIV negative | 110/115 | 28.6/97.8 | 95.7 | 0.28 (−0.15–0.70) | 111/115 | 96.5 | 50.0/98.2 | 0.49 (0.06–0.91) |