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Sensitivity and PPV of a final algorithm for detection of physician-suspected TB using electronic medical record data, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, June 2006 through July 2007
aThis algorithm picked up one patient who was diagnosed and treated at an outside hospital, accounting for the different numerator when calculating PPV.
PPV = positive predictive value
TB = tuberculosis
CI = confidence interval
ICD-9 = International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision
