Sandro Zacher, Birte Berger-Höger, Julia Lühnen, Anke Steckelberg
Development and Piloting of a Web-Based Tool to Teach Relative and Absolute Risk Reductions
International journal of environmental research and public health
compare rapid antigen test rat reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction rtpcr highly suspected covid19 patients determine diagnostic parameters hospitalbased descriptiveobservational study place duration study department medicinecovid complex medical teaching institutionlady reading hospital peshawar khyber pakhtunkhwa pakistan october 2021 april 2022 total 300 highly suspected cases covid19 either gender admitted covid complex hospital included data patients including rat rtpcr covid19 collected retrospectively rtpcr used reference test compared rat diagnostic statistics rat respective 95 confidence intervals calculated rat diagnosing covid19 significance p 005 among 300 patients 137 457 males 163 543 females mean age 5680 1372 years screening 138 46 patients tested positive 162 54 negative rat whereas 213 71 tested positive 87 29 negative rtpcr sensitivity specificity rat 545 95 ci 47526128 747 95 ci 64258342 respectively positive predicted value 841 95 ci 78268853 negative predictive value 401 95 ci 35634479 positive likelihood ratio 215 95 ci 147315 negative likelihoodratio 06195 ci 050074 overall accuracy 6033 95 ci 54556591 low sensitivity specificity rat covid19 overall accuracy 6033 compared rtpcr covid19 rapid antigen test sensitivity specificity rtpcr