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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Care. 2016 Feb;54(2):e9–e14. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e3182a30373

Table 2.

Positive predictive value (PPV), sensitivity and specificity for HCC case identification for each ICD-9 code sampling method

Algorithm PPV (%) Sensitivity
(%)
Specificity
(%)
Algorithm 1: Two 155.0 codes (n=1,138) 67 95 93
Algorithm 2: Two 155.0 codes and no other malignancy (n=922) 73 84 95