Table 4.
Number of Items | Threshold | Sensitivity | Specificity | PPV % | NPV % | LR+ | AUC | SE | 95% CI | P |
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12 | 5 | 0.80 | 0.57 | 46 | 86 | 1.86 | 0.73 | 0.028 | 0.67–0.78 | <.001 |
11 | 4 | 0.84 | 0.51 | 45 | 77 | 1.71 | 0.72 | 0.03 | 0.65–0.77 | <.001 |
10 | 4 | 0.81 | 0.57 | 54 | 77 | 1.88 | 0.71 | 0.028 | 0.65–0.76 | <.001 |
Note: PPV is the positive predictive—true positive/(true positive+ false positives); NPV is the negative predictive value—true negative/(true negative +false negative). The NPV is very high for all these measures, ie, a negative score really is likely to be negative. The PPV is relatively low (above threshold is 1/3 chance of being a genuine positive).