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. 2018 Feb 27;8(2):e020162. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020162

Table 3.

Diagnostic accuracy for bradypnoea, tachypnoea, bradycardia, tachycardia

True positives (%) False positives (%) True negatives (%) False negatives (%) Sensitivity (%) Specificity (%) PPV (%) NPV (%)
Bradycardia
 Complete dataset 824 (71) 363 (1) 55 148 (99) 339 (1) 71 99 69 99
 Filtered dataset* 24 (72) 0 (0) 3953 (100) 9 (0) 73 100 100 100
Tachycardia
 Complete dataset 7111 (90) 1490 (3) 47 321 (97) 752 (2) 90 97 83 98
 Filtered dataset* 496 (98) 65 (2) 3413 (98) 12 (0) 98 98 88 100
Bradypnoea
 Complete dataset 2113 (24) 562 (1) 47 438 (99) 6561 (12) 24 99 79 88
 Filtered dataset* 134 (33) 8 (0) 3587 (100) 272 (7) 33 100 94 93
Tachypnoea
 Complete dataset 16 210 (84) 14 602 (39) 22 694 (61) 3168 (12) 84 61 53 88
 Filtered dataset* 1225 (94) 1029 (38) 1668 (62) 79 (5) 94 62 54 95

*Dataset after applying a median filter.

NPV, negative predictive value; PPV, positive predictive value.