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. 2012 May 23;15(3):442–446. doi: 10.1093/icvts/ivs161

Table 3:

A comparison of yields per patient of CUS and CUSb techniques

Diagnostic yield per patient Bioptic technique
CUS CUSb P > 0.05 (ns)
Sensitivity 91.7 85 P = 0.255 (ns)
Specificity 98 93.2 P = 0.248 (ns)
Accuracy 94.6 88.7 P = 0.108 (ns)
PPV 98.2 94.4 P = 0.291 (ns)
NPV 90.7 82.7 P = 0.192 (ns)

ns: not significant.