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. 2024 Mar 1;21(1):1i.

Table 2.

Validation parameters of COVID-19 Codes recorded in primary care clinical histories using as gold-standard SARS-CoV-2 lab positive test.

N. Positive Covid test (gold-standard) N. Covid Recorded in PC N. in both sources (True positive) N. recorded in PC without +test (% False positives) N. Positive test without PC record Sensitivity of PC records Specificity of PC records PPV of PC records NPV of PC records Missing in PC overall positive test (%)
Vaccinated 10,439 10,381 8,330 2,051 (19.76%) 2,109 79.80 99.95 80.24 99.94 20.20
<70 8,248 8,540 6,771 1,769 (20.71%) 1,477 82.09 99.94 79.29 99.95 17.91
  ≥70 2,191 1,841 1,559 282 (15.32%) 632 71.15 99.97 84.68 99.93 28.85
Unvaccinated 11,263 10,485 8,861 1,624 (15.49%) 2,402 78.67 99.96 84.51 99.94 21.33
<70 9,657 9,156 7,691 1,465 (16.00%) 1,966 79.64 99.95 84.00 99.93 20.36
 ≥70 1,606 1,329 1,170 159 (11.96%) 436 72.85 99.98 88.04 99.95 27.15