Table 3.

Sensitivity and specificity of 4 Medicare claims–based algorithms for classifying SEER-registered MDS cases in 2000-2005

Algorithms	Sensitivity (%)	Specificity (%)
1+ algorithm	92.90	98.49
2+ algorithm	86.28	99.41
2 + BC algorithm	85.46	99.43
2 + BCBM algorithm	78.05	99.84