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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Acad Emerg Med. 2013 Nov;20(11):1131–1138. doi: 10.1111/acem.12251

Table 1.

Probability Parameters*

Parameter Name Base Case Value, % (95% CI)
Prevalence of IAI 1.7 (1.5–1.9)
Sensitivity of CDR strategy 97.0 (93.7–98.9)
Specificity of CDR strategy 42.5 (41.6–43.4)
Sensitivity of usual care strategy 99.5 (96.7–100.0)
Specificity of usual care strategy 56.2 (55.3–57.1)
Sensitivity of CDR+ arm 99.5 (96.6–100.0)
Specificity of CDR+ arm 42.2 (41.0–43.3)
Accuracy of abdominal CT in detecting IAI
 Sensitivity 98.2 (94.3–99.5)
 Specificity 100.0 (98.1–100.0)
% of IAI requiring therapeutic laparotomy or angiography 61.6 (54.5–74.4)

CDR = clinical decision rule; CDR+ = at least one CDR criterion present; IAI = intraabdominal injury requiring acute intervention.

*

See Data Supplement S1 for complete list of probabilities.

Probabilities are derived from PECARN study data.12

Sensitivity of CDR strategy refers to accuracy of CDR to identify patients with IAI (one or more CDR criterion present) and does not imply CT imaging.