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. 2017 Feb 24;6:188–195. doi: 10.1016/j.dadm.2017.01.006

Table 4.

Operating characteristics of screening and case-identification strategy by race/ethnicity and education and age

Stage 1: IQCODE ≥ 3.2 and stage 2: SUMFREE ≤ 30
Sensitivity Specificity PPV NPV
Overall 0.72 (0.65, 0.78) 0.90 (0.87, 0.93) 0.79 (0.72, 0.85) 0.87 (0.83, 0.90)
Hispanic 0.74 (0.60, 0.84) 0.93 (0.86, 0.97) 0.86 (0.73, 0.94) 0.86 (0.77, 0.92)
White–non-Hispanic 0.70 (0.56, 0.81) 0.85 (0.78, 0.91) 0.68 (0.55, 0.80) 0.86 (0.78, 0.92)
Black–non-Hispanic 0.72 (0.60, 0.82) 0.93 (0.88, 0.97) 0.83 (0.71, 0.90) 0.88 (0.82, 0.93)
<8 years 0.76 (0.61, 0.88) 0.90 (0.79, 0.96) 0.84 (0.69, 0.94) 0.84 (0.73, 0.92)
8–11 years 0.69 (0.54, 0.81) 0.88 (0.80, 0.94) 0.76 (0.61, 0.87) 0.84 (0.75, 0.90)
≥12 years 0.72 (0.61, 0.81) 0.92 (0.87, 0.95) 0.78 (0.67, 0.86) 0.89 (0.84, 0.93)
≤75 years 0.67 (0.55, 0.78) 0.93 (0.89, 0.96) 0.77 (0.65, 0.87) 0.89 (0.84, 0.93)
>75 years 0.76 (0.67, 0.84) 0.87 (0.82, 0.92) 0.80 (0.71, 0.87) 0.85 (0.79, 0.90)

Abbreviations: IQCODE, Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly; PPV, positive predictive value; NPV, negative predictive value.