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. 2021 Feb 22;44(6):661–668. doi: 10.1007/s40264-021-01048-0

Table 3.

Inpatient alerts, inpatient genetic alerts, and outpatient alerts

Cohort The Seegnal platform EPIC (control group) p value
Inpatient
 Number of patients 657 657 NA
 Number of admissions 665 665 NA
 Interruptive alerts 1697 27,540 NA
 Alert load 6% 100% NA
 True positives 1422 979 NA
 False positives 275 26,561 NA
 True negatives 26,359 72 NA
 False negatives 0 444 NA
 PPV 83.81% 3.55% < 0.0001
 NPV 100% 14.01% < 0.0001
 Sensitivity 100% 68.8% < 0.0001
 Specificity 99% 0.3% < 0.0001
Inpatient genetic
 Number of patients 413 413 NA
 Number of admissions 413 413 NA
 Interruptive alerts 1493 20,975 NA
 Alert load 7% 100% NA
 True positives 1068 1034 NA
 False positives 425 19,941 NA
 True negatives 19,748 232 NA
 False negatives 250 284 NA
 PPV 71.51% 4.93% < 0.0001
 NPV 99% 44.98% < 0.0001
 Sensitivity 81% 78.5% 0.11
 Specificity 97.9% 1.2% < 0.0001
Outpatient
 Number of patients 2731 2731 NA
 Number of admissions 2749 2749 NA
 Interruptive alerts 2341 35,134 NA
 Alert load 7% 100% NA
 True positives 1924 1700 NA
 False positives 407 33,424 NA
 True negatives 33,134 117 NA
 False negatives 248 472 NA
 PPV 82.54% 4.84% < 0.0001
 NPV 99% 19.84% < 0.0001
 Sensitivity 88.6% 78.3% < 0.0001
 Specificity 99% 0.3% < 0.0001

NA not applicable, NPV negative predictive value, PPV positive predictive value