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. 2024 Feb 8;78(4):922–929. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciae033

Table 3.

Diagnostic Accuracy of Criteria Sets Compared With Reference Standard: “Full” Criteriaa

Criteria Sensitivity (95% CI), % Specificity (95% CI), % NPV (95% CI), % PPV (95% CI), % P Valueb
Sensitivity vs Duke-ISCVID Sensitivity Specificity vs Duke-ISCVID Specificity
Modified Duke criteria 74.9 (70.4–79.1) 94.9 (90.8–97.5) 65.0 (59.2–70.6) 96.8 (94.1–98.4) <.001 .16
2015 ESC criteria 80.0 (75.7–83.8) 93.9 (89.6–96.8) 69.7 (63.8–75.2) 96.4 (93.8–98.1) <.001 >.99
2023 ESC criteria 85.5 (81.6–88.8) 82.1 (76.1–87.2) 73.5 (67.2–79.2) 90.7 (87.3–93.4) .22 <.001
Duke-ISCVID criteria 84.2 (80.3–87.7) 93.9 (89.6–96.8) 74.5 (68.6–79.8) 96.6 (94.1–98.2)

Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; ESC, European Society of Cardiology; ISCVID, International Society of Cardiovascular Infectious Diseases; NPV, negative predictive value; PPV, negative predictive value.

aDiagnostic accuracy with adjudication panel as the reference standard. “Full” criteria include histologic and microbiological results obtained from cardiac surgery. The absolute numbers for each classification-diagnosis combination are listed in Supplementary Table 1.

b P values based on McNemar test statistics [23].