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. 2021 May 9;28(8):1719–1727. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocab068

Table 3.

Summary metrics from screening of high-risk individuals in test set using (i) a Cox-only approach, (ii) a GBT-only approach, and (iii) an ensemble approach in which a decision tree selects between Cox and GBT in cases of disagreement over an individual’s risk classification

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Women
Metric Cox-Only GBT-Only Ensemble Cox-Only GBT-Only Ensemble
[95% CI] [95% CI] [95% CI] [95% CI] [95% CI] [95% CI]
Sensitivity 76% 80% 76% 68% 74% 67%
[72%–80%] [76%–84%] [72%–80%] [64%–72%] [70%–78%] [64%–71%]
Specificity 75% 74% 76% 80% 78% 81%
[74%–77%] [73%–76%] [75%–78%] [79%–81%] [77%–79%] [80%–82%]
PPV 25% 25% 26% 24% 23% 24%
[23%–27%] [23%–28%] [23%–28%] [22%–26%] [21%–25%] [22%–26%]
NPV 97% 97% 97% 97% 97% 97%
[96%–97%] [96%–98%] [96%–97%] [96%–97%] [97%–98%] [96%–97%]
Accuracy 75% 75% 76% 79% 77% 80%
[74%–77%] [74%–76%] [75%–77%] [78%–80%] [76%–78%] [79%–81%]