Table 4: No. and percentages of discrepancies and categorical agreements (CAs) of comparable results obtained by QMAC-dRASTTM and current standard methods (See Materials & Methods 2.3).
| Comparison* |
Gram Negatives (GNs) |
Gram Positives (GPs) |
GNs and GPs |
| - |
Discrepancies |
CAs, % |
Discrepancies |
CAs, % |
Discrepancies |
CAs, % |
| - |
No. |
% |
- |
No. |
% |
- |
No. |
& |
- |
| VME |
10 |
0.7 |
99.3 |
22 |
2.2 |
97.8 |
22 |
1.3 |
98.7 |
| ME |
21 |
1.4 |
98.6 |
12 |
1.2 |
98.8 |
33 |
1.3 |
98.7 |
| mE |
22 |
1.4 |
98.5 |
5 |
0.5 |
99.5 |
27 |
1.1 |
98.9 |
| - |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| In total |
53/1530 |
3.5 |
96.5 |
39/972 |
4.0 |
96.0 |
92/2502 |
3.7 |
96.3 |
*VME: very major error; ME: major error; mE: minor error.