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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Geriatr Oncol. 2014 May 14;5(4):422–430. doi: 10.1016/j.jgo.2014.04.004

Table 5.

Discriminative Ability of the VES-13 and the G8 to Predict Abnormal Geriatric Assessment (GA) or Frailty

GA Frailty
Spearman’s
rho (p)		 AUC (95% CI) Sensitivity;
Specificity
(%)		 NPV
(%)		 Spearman’s
rho (p)		 AUC (95% CI) Sensitivity;
Specificity		 NPV
VES-13 0.56 (<0.01) 0.76 (0.65–0.87) 0.27 (0.06) 0.62 (0.42–0.82)
  ≥3 15.2; 100 37.8 27.3; 94.9 82.2
  ≥1 60.6; 88.2 53.6 54.6; 59.0 82.1
G8 −0.64 (<0.01) 0.78 (0.65–0.91) −0.46 (<0.01) 0.78 (0.61–0.95)
  ≤14 69.7; 70.6 54.5 81.8; 51.3 90.9
  ≤13 60.6; 82.4 51.9 81.8; 64.1 92.6