Table 2.
Predictive Ability of Automated Sepsis Screening Tools
| Reference | Type of Alert | Diagnosis of Sepsis, Severe Sepsis, or Septic Shock |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sensitivity (%) | Specificity (%) | PPV (%) | NPV (%) | ||
| Thiel et al, 201048 (without ABG) | Non-SIRS decision tree | 17.1 | 96.0 | 20.5 | 95.9 |
| Brandt et al, 201536 | SIRS-based | 100 | 62.0 | 16.5 | 100 |
| Buck, 201439 | SIRS-based | … | … | 17 | … |
| Amland and Hahn-Cover, 201637 | SIRS-based | 83 | 92 | 46 | 99 |
| Amland et al, 201538 | SIRS-based | 81 | 87 | 94 | 63 |
NPV = negative predictive value; PPV = positive predictive value. See Table 1 legend for expansion of other abbreviation.