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. 2012 Nov 8;7(11):e47310. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047310

Table 3. Top 10 3-test combinations, ranked according to sum of sensitivity and specificity compared to a 120 minute global neuropsychological battery.

Rank Tests Admin. Time (min) Sensitivity (95% CI)1 Specificity (95% CI)1 PPV (95% CI)1 NPV (95% CI)1 OR (95% CI)
1 STRPCOL/PASAT/HVLTR-LRN 16 86.5 (71.4–95.1) 75.5 (67.9–81.6) 45.7 (33.8–57.0) 95.9 (90.7–98.4) 19.7 (7.2–54.2)
2 TMTA/PASAT/HVLTR-LRN 16 84.2 (69.4–93.9) 76.3 (69.0–82.2) 46.4 (33.9–58.0) 95.2 (90.4–98.3) 17.2 (6.7–44.2)
3 SYMS/PASAT/HVLTR-LRN 18 78.9 (62.8–90.3) 79.5 (72.4–85.0) 48.4 (35.2–60.3) 93.9 (88.5–97.1) 14.5 (6.1–34.7)
4 ACTF/STRPCOL/HVLTR-LRN 13 78.4 (61.9–89.7) 80.0 (72.6–85.4) 47.5 (34.4–59.7) 94.1 (89.0–97.2) 14.5 (6.1–34.7)
5 PASAT/BVMTR-LRN/PND 18 76.3 (60.0–88.2) 82.1 (75.6–87.7) 50.9 (37.8–64.1) 93.4 (88.0–96.9) 14.7 (6.3–34.5)
6 PASAT/HVLTR-LRN/PD 18 81.6 (65.5–91.9) 75.6 (68.1–81.6) 44.9 (32.9–56.3) 94.4 (89.1–97.6) 13.8 (5.6–33.8)
7 STRPCOL/HVLTR-LRN/PD 14 78.4 (61.8–89.7) 78.8 (71.4–84.5) 46.0 (33.3–58.1) 94.0 (88.7–97.1) 13.4 (5.6–32.1)
8 TMTA/PASAT/PND 9 76.3 (60.0–88.2) 80.1 (73.5–85.9) 48.3 (35.5–61.3) 93.3 (87.8–96.8) 13.0 (5.6–30.2)
9 ANIMF/STRPCOL/HVLTR-LRN 13 75.7 (59.1–87.5) 80.6 (73.6–86.0) 47.5 (34.0–60.0) 93.5 (88.0–96.9) 12.9 (5.5–30.2)
10 FAS/STRPCOL/BVMTR-LRN 17 64.9 (47.4–78.8) 91.3 (85.9–95.1) 63.2 (46.2–77.8) 91.8 (86.6–95.5) 19.3 (8.1–45.9)
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95% bootstrap CI for Sensitivity, Specificity, PPV and NPV.

Abbreviations: ACTF, Action Fluency; ANIMF, Animal Fluency; BVMTR-LRN, Brief Visuospatial Memory Test-Revised (Learning Trials); CI, Confidence Interval; FAS; Letter Fluency; HVLTR-LRN, Hopkins Verbal Learning Test-Revised (Learning Trials); NPV, Negative Predictive Value; OR, Odds Ratio; PASAT, Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test; PD, Grooved Pegboard-Dominant hand; PND, Grooved Pegboard -non Dominant hand; PPV, Positive Predictive Value; STRPCOL, Stroop Color Test; SYMS, WAIS-III Symbol Search; TMTA, Trail Making Test-A.