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Table 2 Sepsis surveillance performance of different methods

From: A surveillance method to identify patients with sepsis from electronic health records in Hong Kong: a single centre retrospective study

 

Our Method

Angus [4]

Martin [5]

Sensitivity

0.93 (95%CI 0.89–0.96)

0.12 (95%CI 0.08–0.17)

0.19 (95%CI 0.14–0.25)

Specificity

0.86 (95%CI 0.82–0.90)

0.99 (95%CI 0.97–1.00)

0.92 (95%CI 0.88–0.95)

PPV

0.85 (95% CI 0.81–0.88)

0.90 (95%CI 0.74–0.98)

0.66 (95%CI 0.55–0.78)

NPV

0.93 (95%CI 0.90–0.96)

0.57 (95%CI 0.53–0.62)

0.57 (95%CI 0.53–0.62)

PLR

6.68 (95%CI 4.94 to 9.02)

10.69 (95%CI 3.29 to 34.76)

2.32 (95%CI 1.43 to 3.76)

NLR

0.08 (95%CI 0.05 to 0.13)

0.89 (95%CI 0.85 to 0.94)

0.88 (95%CI 0.82 to 0.95)

AUC

0.90 (95% CI 0.87–0.92)

0.56 (95%CI 0.53–0.58)

0.56 (95%CI 0.52–0.59)

  1. AUC area under the curve, PLR positive likelihood ratio, PPV positive predictive value, NLR negative likelihood ratio, NPV negative predictive value