Table 2.

Sensitivity and specificity values for various score cut-points for the model building and validation samples

Medicare claims score cut-point	Sensitivity (95% CI)*	Specificity (95% CI)*
>0.00	93.9 (92.5-95.3) / 95.3 (93.8-96.8)	96.2 (96.1-96.3) / 96.0 (95.9-96.2)
>5.48	93.8 (92.4-95.3) / 95.3 (93.8-96.8)	97.1 (97.0-97.2) / 97.0 (96.9-97.1)
>37.43	75.0 (72.5-77.6) / 79.8 (76.9-82.7)	99.3 (99.3-99.3) / 99.3 (99.2-99.3)

*%; CI: confidence interval; algorithm building sample values/validation sample values.