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The sample sizes are too small to claim such high specificity and sensitivity without any error bars.
by ummonk 7y ago
The sample sizes are too small to claim such high specificity and sensitivity without any error bars.
- mercurywells 7y ago> The sensitivity of the assay from the estimated day of symptom onset for the 125 patients included in our chart-review study was 53.1% (95%CI 39.4%-66.3%) at 7 days, 82.4% (51.0-76.4%) at 10 days, 96.9% (89.5-99.5%) at 14 days, and 100% (95.1%-100%) at day 17 using the manufacturer’s recommended cutoff of 1.4. > The sensitivity from the date of PCR positivity was: 88.7% (78.5-94.4%) at 7 days, 97.2% (90.4-99.5%) at 10 days, 100.0% at 14 days (95.4-100.0%), and 100.0% (95.5-100.0%) at 17 days using the manufacturer’s recommended cutoff of 1.4.