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. 2014 Jan 9;21(5):815–823. doi: 10.1136/amiajnl-2013-001934

Table 2.

AUROCs (95% CIs) of nine possible combinations of finding-extraction method and BN classifier

BN classifiers Finding-extraction methods
Expert Topaz MedLEE
Primary analyses: BN classifiers using 31 influenza-related findings
 Expert-defined BN 0.70 (0.63 to 0.77) 0.64 (0.57 to 0.71) 0.64 (0.57 to 0.72)
 BN-EM-Topaz 0.79 (0.73 to 0.85) 0.73 (0.66 to 0.79) 0.71 (0.64 to 0.78)
 BN-EM-MedLEE 0.77 (0.70 to 0.83) 0.70 (0.63 to 0.77) 0.66 (0.59 to 0.74)
Secondary analyses: BN classifiers using 17 influential findings*
 Expert-defined BN 0.80 (0.74 to 0.86) 0.76 (0.69 to 0.82) 0.73 (0.66 to 0.80)
 BN-EM-Topaz 0.82 (0.76 to 0.88) 0.75 (0.69 to 0.82) 0.74 (0.68 to 0.81)
 BN-EM-MedLEE 0.79 (0.73 to 0.85) 0.73 (0.66 to 0.80) 0.70 (0.63 to 0.77)

*The 17 influential findings indicated in BN-EM-Topaz were arthralgia, cervical lymphadenopathy, chill, cough, fever, hoarseness, influenza-like illness, lab confirmed influenza lab order (nasal swab), malaise, myalgia, rhinorrhea, sore throat, suspected flu, viral infection, viral syndrome, and wheezing.

AUROC, area under the receiver operating characteristic; BN, Bayesian network.