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. 2011 Dec 15;106(3):460–467. doi: 10.1038/bjc.2011.557

Table 3. Predictive values of different PK parameters with respect to renal toxicities.

  AUC of ROC curve Threshold Sensitivity Specificity Positive predictive value Negative predictive value OR (95% CI)
IPCL 0.909 4.1 0.929 0.825 0.650 0.971 61.3 (9.5–395.0)
CL 0.514   NA NA NA NA NA
AUCIP 0.855 19.6 0.714 0.800 0.556 0.889 10.0 (2.6–38.1)
AUCserum 0.854 4.5 0.857 0.725 0.522 0.935 15.8 (3.5–72.3)
IPCLBayes 0.923 4.5 0.786 0.872 0.688 0.919 24.9 (5.6–111.4)
IPCLcalc 0.892 3.2 0.857 0.821 0.632 0.941 27.4 (5.7–132.2)

Abbreviations: AUCIP=area under the concentration curve observed in the peritoneal compartment; AUCSERUM=area under the concentration curve observed in the central compartment; CI=confidence interval; CL=clearance from the serum (central) compartment; IP=intraperitoneal; IPCL=IP clearance; IPCLBayes=IPCL estimated with two IP samples obtained at the end of each bath and assessed with a Bayesian estimation, IPCLcalc=IPCL estimated with two IP samples obtained at the end of each bath and assessed with the formula described in the paper; NA=not applicable; OR=odds ratio. The thresholds were determined after receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curve assessment and their units are l h–1 for IPCL and mg h l–1 for both AUCs. Predictive values of CL were not evaluated because of too bad ROC evaluation.