Allergy Diagnosis in Children and Adults: Performance of a New Point-of-Care Device, ImmunoCAP Rapid

Table 1 Agreement of the POC and Laboratory Test (Using Different Cutoff Values) With Doctor's Diagnosis

			Doctor's Positive Allergen-Specific Diagnoses				Doctor's Negative Allergen-Specific Diagnoses
Allergen	Estimated POC Cutoff (kU_A/L)	n	Pos. POC (%)	sIgE ≥ 0.35 kU_A/L (%)	sIgE ≥ POC Cutoff (%)	n	Neg. POC (%)	sIgE < 0.35 kU_A/L (%)	sIgE < POC Cutoff (%)
House dust mite	0.82	80	82	99	95	117	93	93	97
Cat	0.72	98	81	96	87	101	98	97	100
Dog	1.81	74	51	97	68	103	100	79	99
Timothy grass	2.42	125	82	98	84	67	97	94	100
Birch	2.15	81	90	100	89	93	95	82	100
Olive	1.41	63	81	100	84	86	100	86	99
Mugwort	1.27	32	53	94	72	128	95	88	98
Wall pellitory	2.56	17	82	100	71	133	97	84	99
Egg white	0.90	32	84	94	84	86	97	98	99
Cow's milk	0.70	25	84	100	92	89	98	94	99
A. alternata	2.33	24	88	96	92	74	97	97	100
Cockroach	--	2	50	100	--	87	99	97	--

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