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Published in final edited form as: Clin Infect Dis. 2010 Mar 1;50(5):679–685. doi: 10.1086/649928

Table 3. Predictive Value of a Low Coma Acidosis Malaria (CAM) Score, Bicarbonate-Based CAM (BCAM) Score and Respiratory Rate–Based CAM (RCAM) Score (<2) for Survival in the Derivation Series by Country and in the Validation Series.

Score, study	PPV, % (95% CI)	No. of deaths/no. of patients with a low score
CAM
SEAQUAMAT
Myanmar	98.1 (90–100)	1/53
Bangladesh	93 (83–98)	4/57
India	100 (87.2–100)	0/27
Indonesia	96.6 (90.4–99.3)	3/88
Total	96.4 (93.1–98.5)	8/225
Vietnam	94.2 (87–98.1)	5/86
Bangladesh	95 (75–99.9)	1/20
BCAM^a
SEAQUAMAT	95.7 (92–98)	9/210
Bangladesh	95 (75.1–99.9)	1/20
RCAM
SEAQUAMAT	92.6 (88.4–95.6)	17/213
Vietnam	92.3 (86.7–96.1)	11/143
Bangladesh	94.4 (72.7–99.9)	1/18

NOTE. Data for the derivation series are from [11], and data for the validation series are from [2, 28]. CI, confidence interval; PPV, positive predictive value.

Bicarbonate level at hospital admission was not recorded in the Vietnamese series [2].