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Table 3 Performance of urine x-pert and Urine LAM for PLHIV admitted in the medical wards and screened for TB at KCH, Lilongwe, Malawi, 2016–2017 N = 334

From: Implementation of tuberculosis and cryptococcal meningitis rapid diagnostic tests amongst patients with advanced HIV at Kamuzu Central Hospital, Malawi, 2016–2017

  

Urine X-pert

  

Positive

N (%)

Negative

N (%)

Total

N (%)

Urine LAM

Positive

13 (81.3)

63 (19.8)

76 (22.7)

Negative

3 (18.7)

255 (80.2)

258 (77.3)

  

Estimate (95% CI)

 

Sensitivity

81.3% (54.4, 96.0)

 

Specificity

80.2% (75.4, 84.4)

 

Positive predictive value

17.1% (9.4, 27.5)

 

Negative predictive value

98.8% (96.6, 99.8)

 

Agreement

80.2% (75.6, 83.4)

 

Kappa statistic

0.22 (0.11, 0.33)