Table 3 Mean (95% CI) Positive and Negative Likelihood Ratios (LR) for all studies, tailored to Egypt and tailored to Germany
ALL | Egypt | Germany | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | Positive LR | Negative LR | n | Positive LR | Negative LR | n | Positive LR | Negative LR | |
Visual detection | |||||||||
advanced occlusal | 94 | 7.09 (5.6–8.9) | 0.39 (0.3–0.5) | 55 | 5.0 (4.3–5.8) | 0.29 (0.2–0.4) | 50 | 12.5 (9.2–16.9) | 0.58 (0.5–0.7) |
all occlusal | 67 | 3.46 (2.8–4.3) | 0.19 (0.15–0.25) | 51 | 3.73 (3.1–4.4) | 0.18 (0.14–0.24) | 12 | 5.56 (3.7–8.5) | 0.56 (0.46–0.68) |
Radiographic detection | |||||||||
advanced occlusal | 44 | 4.90 (3.7–6.5) | 0.53 (0.46–0.62) | 38 | 5.96 (3.7–6.6) | 0.51 (0.44–0.60) | 36 | 5.87 (4.3–8.0) | 0.54 (0.46–0.63) |
all occlusal | 14 | 1.74 (1.3–2.4) | 0.79 (0.65–0.96) | 11 | 2.02 (1.4–2.9) | 0.75 (0.60–0.94) | 9 | 2.36 (1.4–4.1) | 0.76 (0.58–0.99) |
advanced proximal | 22 | 9.82 (7.3–13.3) | 0.58 (0.52–0.65) | 22 | 9.82 (7.3–13.3) | 0.58 (0.52–0.65) | 22 | 9.82 (7.3–13.3) | 0.58 (0.52–0.65) |
all proximal | 38 | 4.30 (3.4–5.5) | 0.63 (0.56–0.72) | 31 | 5.34 (4.2–6.8) | 0.65 (0.57–0.74) | 34 | 4.89 (3.9–6.2) | 0.65 (0.57–0.73) |