Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Sep 8.
Published in final edited form as: J Healthc Qual. 2020 May-Jun;42(3):136–147. doi: 10.1097/JHQ.0000000000000214

Table 3.

Confusion Matrix With Varying Cutoffs (Test Data, n = 33,726)a

Cutoff percentile True positive rate, (%) True negative rate, (%) Positive predictive rate, (%) Negative predicted value, (%) Ratio of false positives to true positives
10th 97.3 10.5 1.87 99.54 52.4
20th 94.0 20.6 2.04 99.49 48.1
30th 88.5 30.6 2.19 99.34 44.7
40th 83.8 40.6 2.42 99.31 40.4
50th 78.9 50.4 2.72 99.27 35.8
60th 70.6 60.6 3.05 99.16 31.8
70th 60.5 70.5 3.48 99.03 27.8
80th 50.3 80.6 4.36 98.93 21.9
90th 42.3 90.5 8.50 98.69 10.8
a

The true positive rate is the percentage of patients who actually developed an infection outcome, in the group of patients who were predicted to have an infection outcome by the statistical model. The true negative rate is the percentage of patients who did not have an infection outcome, in the group of patients who were predicted not to have an infection outcome by the statistical model. The positive predictive value is the ability of the statistical model to accurately predict whether a patient who is identified as having an infection outcome by the model actually has an infection outcome. The negative predictive value is the ability of the statistical model to accurately predict a patient who does not have an infection outcome.