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Table 3 Results with +MA recoded as +QFT

From: Case-Control study of Firefighters with documented positive tuberculin skin test results using Quantiferon-TB testing in comparison with Firefighters with negative tuberculin skin test results

 

Conditionally Positive QFT Treatment

 

Excluded

QFT positive

QFT Negative

Sensitivity (%)

52.4

59.5

44.6

Specificity (%)

59.5

56.8

61.4

PPV (%)

43.7

48.1

43.7

NPV (%)

67.6

67.6

62.2

Kappa

   

Agreement (%)

56.9

57.9

54.6

κ statistic

0.1145

0.1567

0.0594

p-value

0.0168

0.0011

0.1273

McNemar's

   

p-value

0.0379

0.0049

0.8164