Contigency Table for PCR versus Unblinded Clinician Diagnoses for the Same Patients
| PCR | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Negative | Total | |
| Clinician | |||
| positive | 116 | 24 | 140 |
| negative | 11 | 99 | 110 |
| Total | 127 | 123 | 250 |
Abbreviation: PCR, Polymerase chain reaction.
Notes: Most of the time, clinicians agreed with the PCR results, but rarely the diagnoses differed. Justifications for clinician diagnoses were not collected as part of the study.