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. 2017 Sep 21;358:j4208. doi: 10.1136/bmj.j4208

Table 5.

Sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values for death at different thresholds of predicted risk of death over one year in validation cohort

Threshold Risk threshold % True negative (count) False negative (count) False positive (count) True positive (count) Sensitivity (%) Specificity (%) Positive predictive value (%) Negative predictive value (%)
Top 1% 58.3 436 007 58 477 2025 2969 4.8 99.5 59.5 88.2
Top 2% 47.0 433 741 55 748 4291 5698 9.3 99.0 57.0 88.6
Top 3% 40.2 431 282 53 212 6750 8234 13.4 98.5 55.0 89.0
Top 4% 35.4 428 786 50 713 9246 10 733 17.5 97.9 53.7 89.4
Top 5% 31.7 426 128 48 377 11 904 13 069 21.3 97.3 52.3 89.8
Top 10% 20.3 411 084 38 447 26 948 22 999 37.4 93.8 46.0 91.4
Top 15% 14.3 393 760 30 797 44 272 30 649 49.9 89.9 40.9 92.7
Top 20% 10.6 374 710 24 873 63 322 36 573 59.5 85.5 36.6 93.8
Top 25% 8.2 354 411 20 198 83 621 41 248 67.1 80.9 33.0 94.6
Top 30% 6.4 333 225 16 410 104 807 45 036 73.3 76.1 30.1 95.3
Top 35% 5.1 311 237 13 424 126 795 48 022 78.2 71.1 27.5 95.9
Top 40% 4.2 288 786 10 901 149 246 50 545 82.3 65.9 25.3 96.4
Top 45% 3.4 265 826 8887 172 206 52 559 85.5 60.7 23.4 96.8
Top 50% 2.9 242 548 7191 195 484 54 255 88.3 55.4 21.7 97.1