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. 2013 Jun 21;17(3):R124. doi: 10.1186/cc12796

Table 4.

Accuracy of suspected diagnoses during resuscitation based on data of 4,049 HEMS and 6,551 GEMS patients with emergency physicians' preclinical documentation of suspected injuries, respectively

Sensitivity Specificity Positive predictive value

HEMS GEMS P-value HEMS GEMS P-value HEMS GEMS P-value
Head 88.9% 88.9% 0.99 60.4% 65.8% <0.001 78.1% 82.2% <0.001
Chest 68.4% 67.0% 0.22 71.5% 74.8% 0.022 81.4% 79.4% 0.075
Abdomen 51.5% 55.8% 0.032 74.9% 79.1% <0.001 40.9% 44.6% 0.044
Upper extremity 63.2% 63.7% 0.74 80.1% 80.6% 0.61 70.7% 67.4 0.030
Lower Extremity 79.7% 79.3% 0.75 84.2% 85.3% 0.25 78.5% 77.6% 0.48
Spine 55.9% 55.8% 0.94 75.4% 80.4% <0.001 56.7% 56.3% 0.83
Pelvis 54.8% 56.8% 0.37 83.8% 86.3% 0.002 49.9% 51.7% 0.36