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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Emerg Care. 2013 May;29(5):628–634. doi: 10.1097/PEC.0b013e31828e9cd2

Table 3.

Positive and Negative Predictive Values* between the Parent Interview and Home Observation by Study Group and for the Total Sample

Smoke Alarms Intervention Group Control Group Fischer’s Exact Test Total Sample
PPV 10/31 (33%) 21/39 (54%) p=.09 31/70 (44%)
NPV 5/22 (23%) 4/6 (66%) p=.06 9/28 (32%)
Poison Storage
PPV 6/37 (16%) 4/28 (14%) p=1.0 10/65 (15%)
NPV 10/10 (100%) 10/10 (100%) p=1.0 20/20 (100%)
*

PPV= # observed safe/#reported safe; NPV = #observed unsafe/#reported unsafe