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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2011 May 25;33(4):347–353. doi: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2011.03.015

Table 5.

Statistics for severity and number of PTSD symptoms as markersof clinical distress and functional impairment

BSI (significant distress)
Marker AUC TPR of 70% TPR of 80% TPR of 90%
Threshold FPR (95% CI) Threshold FPR (95% CI) Threshold FPR (95% CI)
Severity of symptoms 0.84 (0.82, 0.85) 10 14% (12%, 20%) 6 27% (23%, 33%) 2 54% (45%, 65%)
Number of symptoms 0.82 (0.80, 0.84) 6 21% (15%, 22%) 4 33% (26%, 41%) 1 63% (50%, 64%)
SF-36 mental summary (functional impairment)
Marker AUC TPR of 70% TPR of 80% TPR of 90%
Threshold FPR (95% CI) Threshold FPR (95% CI) Threshold FPR (95% CI)
Severity of symptoms 0.74 (0.73, 0.76) 5 30% (29%, 37%) 2 52% (43%, 53%) 0 84% (83%, 85%)
Number of symptoms 0.74 (0.72, 0.75) 4 31% (30%, 40%) 2 49% (48%, 61%) 0 84% (83%, 85%)

AUC=Area under the curve; TPR = True Positive Rate; FPR = False Positive Rate