Table 3.

Performance characteristics of both tools of predicting 1-year mortality (both practices combined, n = 3640, 36 deceased in the year after performance of the tools, 2016–17)

	SQ (n = 67)	SPICT (n = 101)
Sensitivity	50% (34–66)	58% (43–73)
Specificity	99% (98–100)	98% (97–98)
Without 10 deceased patients who arguably could not have been identified  a
Sensitivity	69% (50–84)	81% (63–92)
Specificity	99% (98–100)	98% (97–98)

Percentages (95% confidence interval).

^aThe 10 patients that deceased relatively suddenly were included in the category ‘true negatives’ for the calculation of these performance characteristics.