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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dig Dis Sci. 2008 Aug 23;54(6):1297–1306. doi: 10.1007/s10620-008-0471-z

Table 4.

Questionnaire Test Characteristics *

Modality Sensitivity (95% CI) Specificity (95% CI) Report to Records Concordance (95% CI) Positive Predictive Value (95% CI) Negative Predictive Value (95% CI)
CRC
Overall 0.94 (0.90–0.97) 0.63 (0.47–0.76) 1.04 0.88 (0.83–0.92) 0.91 (0.86–0.95) 0.74 (0.57–0.85)
Durham 0.95 (0.87–0.98) 0.60 (0.39–0.78) 1.05 0.88 (0.80–0.93) 0.90 (0.82–0.95) 0.75 (0.50–0.90)
Minneapolis 0.94 (0.86–0.98) 0.65 (0.43–0.82) 1.02 0.88 (0.80–0.93) 0.92 (0.83–0.96) 0.72 (0.49–0.88)
FOBT
Overall 0.75 (0.63–0.84) 0.84 (0.77–0.89) 1.13 0.81 (0.75–0.86) 0.66 (0.54–0.76) 0.89 (0.82–0.93)
Durham 0.78 (0.62–0.88) 0.84 (0.73–0.91) 1.06 0.82 (0.73–0.88) 0.74 (0.58–0.85) 0.87 (0.76–0.93)
Minneapolis 0.71 (0.51–0.85) 0.83 (0.73–0.90) 1.25 0.80 (0.71–0.87) 0.57 (0.39–0.73) 0.90 (0.81–0.95)
Sigmoidoscopy
Overall 0.75 (0.60–0.86) 0.91 (0.86–0.95) 1.10 0.88 (0.83–0.92) 0.68 (0.53–0.80) 0.94 (0.88–0.97)
Durham 0.80 (0.36–0.97) 0.93 (0.85–0.97) 2.20 0.92 (0.85–0.96) 0.36 (0.15–0.65) 0.99 (0.93–1.00)
Minneapolis 0.74 (0.58–0.86) 0.89 (0.79–0.95) 0.94 0.84 (0.76–0.90) 0.79 (0.62–0.90) 0.87 (0.76–0.93)
Colonoscopy
Overall 0.91 (0.84–0.96) 0.86 (0.77–0.91) 1.05 0.89 (0.83–0.92) 0.87 (0.79–0.92) 0.90 (0.82–0.95)
Durham 0.94 (0.83–0.99) 0.94 (0.83–0.98) 1.00 0.94 (0.87–0.97) 0.94 (0.83–0.99) 0.94 (0.83–0.98)
Minneapolis 0.89 (0.77–0.95) 0.77 (0.63–0.87) 1.09 0.83 (0.75–0.89) 0.81 (0.69–0.89) 0.86 (0.72–0.94)
BE
Overall 0.88 (0.51–1.00) 0.93 (0.88–0.96) 2.63 0.93 (0.88–0.95) 0.33 (0.17–0.55) 0.99 (0.97–1.00)
Durham 0.75 (0.29–0.96) 0.91 (0.83–0.95) 3.00 0.90 (0.82–0.95) 0.25 (0.09–0.54) 0.99 (0.93–1.00)
Minneapolis 1.00 (0.45–1.00) 0.95 (0.88–0.98) 2.25 0.95 (0.89–0.98) 0.44 (0.19–0.73) 1.00 (0.95–1.00)
*

calculated upper 95% confidence levels >1.00 were capped at 1.00

medical record documentation was the reference standard

definition provided in text