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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomed Inform. 2008 Mar 21;41(3):442–451. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2008.03.003

Table 4.

Distribution of alarms in training, test, and combined sets.

Training (n=267) Test (n=180) Combined training and test sets (n=447)
Alarm Type FALSE TRUE TOTAL FA RATE (%) FALSE TRUE TOTAL FA RATE (%) FALSE TRUE TOTAL FA RATE (%)
Asystole 281 35 316 88.9 244 19 263 92.8 525 54 579 90.7
Brady 143 207 350 40.9 67 300 367 18.3 210 507 717 29.3
Tachy 256 816 1072 23.9 177 628 805 22.0 433 1444 1877 23.1
VTach 484 517 1001 48.4 401 498 899 44.6 885 1015 1900 46.6
VT/VF 137 39 176 77.8 112 25 137 81.8 249 64 313 79.6
Total alarms 1301 1614 2915 44.6 1001 1470 2471 40.5 2302 3084 5386 42.7