Letter to the editor
Letter of concern on evaluating the consistency between two clinical COVID-19 diagnostic methods

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Highlights

  • Applying overall concordance rate alone is unreliable in evaluating consistency.

  • The agreement depends on the prevalence of each observer.

  • Combining various statistical methods in consistency analysis should be considered.

Keywords

SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19
Polymerase chain reaction
RT-LAMP
Agreement
Cohen's kappa

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