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. 2015 Sep 25;4(10):e002135. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.115.002135

Table 7.

Predictive Accuracy of Different Bleeding Definitions for 30‐Day Mortality

VARC‐2 (LT) BARC (Class ≥3) BARC (Class ≥2) TIMI (Major) TIMI (Major+Minor) GUSTO (Severe or LT) GUSTO (Severe or LT and Moderate) Modified VARC (LT) BARC (Class ≥3) P Value BARC (Class ≥2) P Value TIMI (Major) P Value TIMI (Major+Minor) P Value GUSTO (Severe or LT) P Value GUSTO (Severe or LT and Moderate) P Value Modified VARC (LT)
Sensitivity 36% 50% 50% 32% 50% 25% 43% 54% 0.13 0.13 1.00 0.13 0.25 0.50 0.063
Specificity 89% 80% 75% 90% 80% 98% 85% 85% <0.001 <0.001 0.25 <0.001 <0.001 0.001 <0.001
Accuracy 86% 78% 73% 87% 78% 93% 83% 83%  0.49 1.00 0.42 0.47 0.71 0.55 0.064

Data are percentages. Reference group for comparison of sensitivity, specificity: VARC2 LT. P value for Ho: equality of sensitivity/specificity. BARC indicates Bleeding Academic Research Consortium; GUSTO, Global Utilization of Streptokinase and Tissue Plasminogen Activator for Occluded Coronary Arteries investigators; LT, life‐threatening; TIMI, Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction investigators; VARC, Valve Academic Research Consortium.