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

Table 4.

Diagnostic Accuracy of Criteria Sets Compared With Reference Standard: “Clinical” 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 69.9 (65.2–74.4) 94.9 (90.8–97.5) 60.8 (55.1–66.3) 96.5 (93.7–98.3) <.001 .16
2015 ESC criteria 74.9 (70.4–79.1) 93.9 (89.6–96.8) 64.8 (58.9–70.3) 96.1 (93.4–98.0) <.001 1
2023 ESC criteria 80.7 (76.5–84.5) 82.1 (76.1–87.2) 67.7 (61.3–73.6) 90.2 (86.6–93.1) .09 <.001
Duke-ISCVID criteria 79.0 (74.6–82.9) 93.9 (89.6–96.8) 68.7 (62.7–74.2) 96.3 (93.7–98.1)

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

aDiagnostic accuracy with adjudication panel as the reference standard. The “clinical” criteria exclude 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].