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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Child Abuse Negl. 2018 Dec 11;88:266–274. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2018.11.015

Table 5.

Primary analysis of the PediBIRN-7’s predictive performance, applying physicians’ final diagnoses to classify patients as AHT vs. non-AHT, and excluding all 26 indeterminate cases.

Applying Physicians’ Final Diagnoses (excluding all 26 indeterminate cases)
PediBIRN-7 Estimate of AHT Probability AHT Non-AHT
>0.50 216 23
≤0.50 31 204
Value (95% CI)
Sensitivity 0.87 (0.83-0.91)
Specificity 0.90 (0.85-0.93)
Positive predictive value 0.90 (0.86-0.94)
Negative predictive value 0.87 (0.82-0.91)

Abbreviations: AHT=abusive head trauma. ROC-AUC was 0.94 (95% CI: 0.91-0.96).