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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dysphagia. 2016 Jan 23;31(3):383–390. doi: 10.1007/s00455-015-9687-1

Table 2.

Summary of receiver operator curve analysis results between safe (PAS≤2) and unsafe (PAS≥3) swallowers in rank order of significance.

Measure: AUC (95% C.I.) Sensitivity (%) Specificity (%) Cut Point (95% C.I) LR
Cough Volume Acceleration 0.85
(0.75, 0.95)
91.3 82.2 <45.28L s/s
(41.32, 47.11)
5.12
Expiratory Rise Time 0.81
(0.70, 0.92)
82.6 73.9 >80ms
(73, 110)
3.17
Peak Expiratory Flow 0.78
(0.67, 0.90)
73.9 78.3 <3.98L/s
(2.87, 4.73)
3.40

C.I.: Confidence Interval; LR: Likelihood Ratio.