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. 2019 Apr 8;30(5):398–407. doi: 10.5152/tjg.2019.18226

Table 2.

Clinical trials of computer-aided psychometric tests for screening MHE

Computer-aided psychometric tests Study Nationality No. of patients with cirrhosis Reference standard Sensitivity (%) Specificity (%) AUC
Scan test Amodio et al. (42) Italy 32 EEG 36 90 -
CDR assessment battery Mardini et al. (22) United Kingdom 89 PHES 86.4 81 0.917
ICT Bajaj et al. (5) United States 50 SPT 90 90 0.958
Bajaj et al. (47) United States 136 SPT 88 77 0.902
Gupta et al. (29) India 200 PHES 92.6 78.5 0.855
Taneja et al. (54) India 102 PHES 78 65.6 0.735
Sharma et al. (51) India 50 PHES 88.5 56 0.695
Amodio et al. (53) Italy 75 PHES 82.5 72.6 0.810
EncephalApp Stroop App Bajaj et al. (23) United States 125 SPT 78 90 0.890
Bajaj et al. (59) United States 167 SPT 89.1 82.1 0.910
Allampati et al. (60) United States 437 PHES 72 88 0.800
CFF Romero et al. (66) Spain 114 PHES 77 73 0.754
Dhiman et al. (65) India 100 PHES 35 92 -
Kircheis et al. (64) Germany 148 PHES 97 100 -

MHE: minimal hepatic encephalopathy; CDR: Cognitive Drug Research system; ICT: inhibitory control test; EEG: electroencephalography; SPT: standard psychometric tests; PHES: psychometric hepatic encephalopathy score; CFF: critical flicker frequency; AUC: area under the receiving operative curve