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. 2024 Nov 21;25:940. doi: 10.1186/s12891-024-08013-9

Table 3.

Test performance for detection of shoulder pathology

All patients
N=718
Age categories (years) Sex categories
≤ 50 (n=176) > 50 (n=542) Male (n=258) Female (n=460)
Sensitivity 89.2 (85.0-92.6) 83.1 (71.7-91.2) 91.0 (86.5-94.4) 88.1 (79.2-94.1) 89.7 (84.7-93.5)
Specificity 96.1 (93.8-97.7) 91.0 (84.1-95.6) 97.8 (95.5-99.1) 97.7 (94.2-99.4) 94.9 (91.5-97.3)
PPV 93.8 (90.5-96.0) 84.4 (74.8-90.8) 96.7 (93.3-98.4) 94.9 (87.5-98.0) 93.4 (89.2-96.0)
NPV 93.0 (90.5-94.9) 90.2 (84.2-94.0) 94.0 (91.1-96.0) 94.4 (90.5-96.8) 92.1 (88.5-94.6)
LR+ 22.6 (14.1-36.0) 9.2 (5.1-16.8) 41.5 (19.9-86.4) 38.3 (14.5-101.3) 17.7 (10.4-30.1)
LR- 0.11 (0.08-0.16) 0.19 (0.11-0.32) 0.09 (0.06-0.14) 0.12 (0.07-0.22) 0.11 (0.07-0.16)
Accuracy 93.3 (91.2-95.0) 88.1 (82.3-92.5) 95.0 (92.8-96.7) 94.6 (91.1-97.0) 92.6 (89.8-94.8)