Table 5.

Sensitivity and specificity of fall risk questions and tools¹.

	Sensitivity		Specificity		Positive Likelihood Ratio		Negative Likelihood Ratio
	%	95% Confidence Interval	%	95% Confidence Interval	%	95% Confidence Interval	%	95% Confidence Interval
Tool
Three Key Questions	68.7	64.0, 73.4	57.9	53.2, 62.6	1.6	1.4, 2.0	0.5	0.5, 0.6
Stay Independent	55.7	50.7, 60.7	75.9	71.8, 79.9	2.3	1.8, 3.0	0.6	0.4, 0.8
American Geriatric/British Geriatric	60.1	55.1, 65.0	66.4	61.9, 70.9	1.8	1.4, 2.2	0.6	0.5, 0.7
short Falls Efficacy Scale	22.5	18.3, 26.7	89.4	86.5, 92.3	2.1	1.3, 3.4	0.9	0.5, 1.4
Fell in the past year	40.3	35.4, 45.2	86.2	82.9, 89.5	2.9	2.0, 4.2	0.7	0.5, 1.0
Fallen in the past 12 months	45.3	40.3, 50.3	83.4	79.8, 86.9	2.7	2.0, 3.8	0.7	0.5, 0.9

¹Calculated using population weights.