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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Care. 2014 Jun;52(6):e39–e43. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e318268ac86

Table 2.

Definitions Used in the Study

Medical Record Abstraction Gold Standard
Sepsis Not-Sepsis
Claims-Based Implementation Sepsis A B
Not-Sepsis C D

Sensitivity: A/(A+C)

Specificity: D/(B+D)

Positive Predictive Value: A/(A+B)

Negative Predictive Value: D/(D+C)