Table 3.

Performance of qSOFA and SOFA regarding screening for mortality.

	qSOFA		SOFA
	Value	95% CIa	Value	95% CIa
Sensitivity (%)	56.84	46.2–66.97	93.68	86.76–97.65
Specificity (%)	74.16	63.79–82.86	25.85	17.14–36.21
Positive predictive value (%)	70.13	61.31–77.67	57.42	54.13–60.64
Negative predictive value (%)	61.68	55.35–67.64	79.31	62.08–89.97
Positive Likelihood Ratio	2.20	1.48 to 3.26	1.26	1.11–1.44
Negative Likelihood Ratio	0.58	0.45 to 0.76	0.24	0.10–0.57

^aConfidence interval.