The diagnostic performance of human urinary dipsticks to estimate urine pH, specific gravity (SpG), and protein in horses: are they reliable?

Table 1 The correlation of two human commercial urinary dipsticks with the corresponding reference methods to measure protein, pH and specific gravity (SpG). Inter-rater agreement between two observers and two dipsticks were also provided

Parameter	Inter-observer agreement		Inter-rater (dipsticks) agreement	Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients between human dipsticks and the reference method
Parameter	KP	MN	Inter-rater (dipsticks) agreement	KP	MN
Protein	0.87	0.84	0.60	0.534	0.485
pH	0.87	0.85	0.65	0.445	0.370
SpG	0.86	0.86	0.60	0.285	0.338

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