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. 2000 Nov-Dec;7(6):593–604. doi: 10.1136/jamia.2000.0070593

Table 2.

Performance Measures for All Subjects in the Study

MD1 MD2 MD3 MD4 SymText AAKS KS Lay1 Lay2 Lay3
Pneumonia (N = 47):
Recall 0.98 (0.94–1.00) 0.96 (0.90–1.00) 1 (0.80–0.98) 0.98 (0.94–1.00) 0.94 (0.87–1.00) 0.94 (0.87–1.00) 0.83 (0.72–0.94) 0.89 (0.80–0.98) 0.72 (0.59–0.85) 0.89 (0.80–0.98)
Precision 0.96 (0.90–1.00) 0.94 (0.87–1.00) 0.96 (0.91–1.00) 0.98 (0.94–1.00) 0.96 (0.90–1.00) 0.52 (041–0.63) 0.83 (0.72–0.94) 0.81 (0.70–0.92) 0.87 (0.76–0.98) 0.95 (0.89–1.00)
Specificity 0.99 (0.98–1.00) 0.99 (0.98–1.00) 0.99 (0.98–1.00) 0.99 (0.98–1.00) 0.99 (0.98–1.00) 0.83 (0.78–0.88) 0.97 (0.95–0.99) 0.96 (0.94–0.98) 0.98 (0.96–1.00) 0.99 (0.98–1.00)
Aspiration (N = 6):
Recall 1 1 1 1 1 0.83 (0.53–1.00) 1 0.66 (0.28–1.00) 0.83 (0.53–1.00) 0.83 (0.53–1.00)
Precision 1 1 1 1 0.75 (0.45–1.00) 0.62 (0.28–0.96) 0.85 (0.59–1.00) 0.80 (0.45–1.00) 0.35 (0.10–0.60) 1
Specificity 1 1 1 1 0.99 (0.98–1.00) 0.98 (0.96–1.00) 0.99 (0.98–1.00) 0.99 (0.98–1.00) 0.97 (0.95–1.00) 1
Infiltrate (N = 132):
Recall 0.80 (0.73–0.87) 0.93 (0.89–0.97) 0.79 (0.72–0.86) 0.77 (0.70–0.84) 0.84 (0.78–0.90) 0.56 (0.48–0.64) 0.76 (0.69–0.83) 0.045 (0.01–0.08) 0.13 (0.07–0.19) 0.14 (0.08–0.20)
Precision 0.97 (0.94–1.00) 0.92 (0.87–0.97) 0.96 (0.92–1.00) 0.93 (0.88–0.98) 0.87 (0.81–0.93) 0.92 (0.86–0.98) 0.82 (0.75–0.89) 0.75 (0.45–1.0) 0.94 (0.83–1.00) 0.63 (0.46–0.80)
Specificity 0.98 (0.96–1.00) 0.94 (0.90–0.98) 0.97 (0.94–1.00) 0.95 (0.92–0.98) 0.90 (0.85–0.95) 0.96 (0.93–0.99) 0.86 (0.81–0.91) 0.98 (0.96–1.00) 0.99 (0.97–1.00) 0.93 (0.89–0.97)
Support Pneumonia (N = 112):
Recall 0.94 (0.90–0.98) 0.93 (0.88–0.98) 0.97 (0.94–1.00) 0.91 (0.86–0.96) 0.95 (0.91–0.99) 0.79 (0.71–0.87) 0.87 (0.81–0.93) 0.38 (0.29–0.47) 0.58 (0.49–0.67) 0.41 (0.32–0.50)
Precision 0.83 (0.76–0.90) 0.92 (0.87–0.97) 0.88 (0.82–0.94) 0.84 (0.77–0.91) 0.78 (0.71–0.85) 0.63 (0.55–0.71) 0.70 (0.62–0.78) 0.86 (0.76–0.96) 0.85 (0.77–0.93) 0.97 (0.92–1.00)
Specificity 0.88 (0.83–0.93) 0.95 (0.92–0.98) 0.92 (0.88–0.96) 0.89 (0.84–0.94) 0.85 (0.80–0.90) 0.71 (0.64–0.78) 0.77 (0.71–0.83) 0.96 (0.93–0.99) 0.93 (0.89–0.97) 0.99 (0.98–1.00)

note: The 95 percent confidence intervals (95% CI) are shown in parentheses. N is the number of reports containing the concept, as judged by the gold standard.