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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Surgery. 2022 Dec 2;173(2):464–471. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2022.10.026

Table III.

Performance statistics for each model in both the training and test datasets

Statistic SSI UTI Sepsis Pneumonia





Data set Training Test Training Test Training Test Training Test

NSQIP prevalence 784 (3.7%) 285 (3.1%) 322 (1.5%) 144 (1.6%) 584 (2.7%) 184 (2.0%) 222 (1.0%) 63 (0.7%)
Model prevalence 3.7% 3.3% 1.5% 1.7% 2.7% 2.5% 1.0% 0.9%
FDR level 0.175 NA 0.1 NA 0.125 NA 0.125 NA
No. of predictors selected 4 NA 7 NA 7 NA 8 NA
Threshold for classification* 2.9 2.9 1.1 1.1 4.5 4.5 1.6 1.6
AUC 0.91 0.91 0.91 0.93 0.95 0.95 0.96 0.96
Specificity* 81 (80, 81) 82 (81,82) 90 (90,91) 90 (89,91) 89 (89, 90) 89 (88, 90) 95 (94, 95) 95 (94, 95)
Sensitivity* 89 (87, 91) 89 (85, 93) 82 (78, 86) 90 (85, 94) 89 (87, 92) 93 (90, 97) 88, (84, 92) 87 (79, 95)
Accuracy* 81 (81, 82) 82 (81,83) 90 (89,91) 90 (89,91) 89 (89, 90) 89 (88, 90) 94 (94, 95) 95 (94, 95)
NPV* 99 (99, 99) 99 (99, 99) 99 (99, 99) 99 (99, 99) 99 (99, 99) 99 (99, 99) 99 (99, 99) 99 (99, 99)
PPV* 15 (15, 15) 13 (13, 14) 11 (10, 11) 12 (11, 13) 19(18, 20) 15 (14, 16) 14(13, 15) 10(9, 11)

AUC, area under the curve; FDR, false discovery rate; NA, not applicable; NPV, negative predictive value; NSQIP, National Surgical Quality Improvement Program; PPV, positive predictive value; SSI, surgical site infection; UTI, urinary tract infection.

*

Values multiplied by 100.