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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2017 Apr;18(4):363–369. doi: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000001099

Table 2.

Sensitivity, Specificity, Negative Predictive Value, Positive Predictive Value and Inter-rater reliability (Kappa) of PCC Providers at Detecting Seizures Using aEEG and aEEG+CDSA by group

Measures aEEG aEEG+CDSA

Value Exact 95% CI Value Exact 95% CI
Sensitivity Attendings 81% 74–87% 81% 74–87%
Fellows 74% 69–78% 75% 70–80%
Nurses 81% 74–87% 81% 73–87%
Specificity Attendings 62% 57–66% 63% 58–68%
Fellows 66% 62–69% 71% 68–74%
Nurses 67% 62–72% 69% 63–73%
Negative predictive value Attendings 89% 85–93% 90% 85–93%
Fellows 86% 84–89% 88% 85–90%
Nurses 90% 86–94% 90% 86–93%
Positive predictive value Attendings 45% 39–51 % 46% 40–52%
Fellows 45% 41–50% 50% 46–55%
Nurses 49% 42–56% 50% 43–57%
Inter-rater reliability
(Fleiss Kappa)
Attendings
Fellows
Nurses
0.41
0.40
0.37
0.32–0.50
0.33–0.48
0.28–0.47
0.33
0.40
0.33
0.25–0.42
0.35–0.50
0.23–0.44

aEEG; amplitude-integrated EEG, CDSA; color density spectral array, cEEG; conventional electroencephalogram