Table 4.
Comparison of medical records and death certificates, among hospital-identified cases that had died at the time of analysis, for which we obtained medical records, a) excluding and b) including clinically suspect ALS subjects as true ALS cases.
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| Death | Certificates | Hospital Discharges | ||
| ALS | No ALS | |||
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| ALS | 105 | 21 | ||
| No ALS | 29 | 18 | ||
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| b) | ||||
| Death | Certificates | Hospital Discharges | ||
| ALS | No ALS | |||
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| ALS | 125 | 1 | ||
| No ALS | 35 | 12 | ||
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Sensitivity = 78.4%, PPV = 83.3%,
Specificity = 46.2%
Sensitivity = 78.1%, PPV = 99.2%,
Specificity = 92.3%