Table 3.

Test characteristics of TUG for identifying fallers

	12s	13s	14s	15s	16s	17s
n (TUG>x)	239/114	183/84	142/60	102/44	85/27	66/23
Sensitivity	0.44/0.37	0.35/0.30	0.26/0.20	0.20/0.18	0.17/0.11	0.14/0.11
Specificity	0.58/0.79	0.69/0.86	0.75/0.90	0.83/0.94	0.86/0.97	0.90/0.98
PPV	0.43/0.54	0.44/0.58	0.42/0.57	0.45/0.68	0.47/0.70	0.48/0.78
NPV	0.60/0.65	0.60/0.65	0.59/0.63	0.60/0.63	0.60/0.62	0.60/0.62

X – cut-off for TUG. n(TUG>x) – number of subjects above cut-off. PPV – positive predictive value. NPV – negative predictive value.