Diagnosis of periprosthetic infection following total hip arthroplasty – evaluation of the diagnostic values of pre- and intraoperative parameters and the associated strategy to preoperatively select patients with a high probability of joint infection

Table 4 Sensitivity, specificity, positive (PPV) and negative (NPV) predictive values, and accuracy for each of the tests are shown.

	*Aspiration*	*Intraoperative* *Cultures*	*Histopathology*	*C-reactive* *protein*	*White* *blood-* *cell* *count*
Sensitivity	0.57	0.78	0.95	0.95	0.14
Specificity	0.5	0.92	0.92	0.62	0.92
PPV	0.78	0.96	0.97	0.88	0.83
NPV	0.29	0.63	0.86	0.80	0.29
Accuracy	0.54	0.82	0.94	0.86	0.34

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