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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Orofac Pain. 2010 Winter;24(1):63–78.

Table 1.

Sensitivity and Specificity for Original and Revised RDC/TMD Axis I Diagnostic Algorithms, and 95% Confidence Intervals for the Expert-driven Revised Algorithms

Algorithm Models
Diagnostic Groupings Original RDC Point Estimates Sens./Spec. Data-driven Point Estimates Sens./Spec. Expert-driven Point Estimates Sens./Spec. 95% CI Expert-driven Sens. 95% CI Expert-driven Spec.
Any Group I 0.82/0.98 0.95/0.92 0.91/1.00 0.88–0.95 1.00
Ia 0.75/0.97 0.82/0.97 0.82/0.99 0.74–0.89 0.98–1.00
Ib 0.83/0.99 0.98/0.95 0.93/0.97 0.89–0.97 0.95–0.99
Any Group II 0.35/0.96 0.81/0.54 0.71/0.67 0.65–0.76 0.60–0.74
IIa 0.42/0.92 0.73/0.53 0.46/0.90 0.40–0.52 0.87–0.93
IIb 0.26/1.00 0.77/0.98 0.80/0.97 0.63–0.90 0.95–0.98
IIc 0.05/0.99 0.18/0.97 0.53/0.80 0.43–0.62 0.75–0.84
Any Joint Pain (IIIa or IIIb) 0.42/0.99 0.90/0.83 0.92/0.96 0.88–0.95 0.93–0.98
Any Arthrosis (IIIb or IIIc) 0.14/0.99 0.46/0.90 0.52/0.86 0.44–0.60 0.82–0.89
IIIa 0.38/0.90 0.78/0.81 0.74/0.88 0.67–0.79 0.85–0.91
IIIb 0.13/1.00 0.48/0.92 0.51/0.91 0.42–0.60 0.88–0.94
IIIc 0.12/0.99 0.20/0.97 0.35/0.95 0.23–0.49 0.93–0.96

CI = confidence interval. Sens = Sensitivity. Spec = Specificity.