Table 3.
Performance on hold-out test data for algorithm predictions up to 3 hours in advance.
| Performance metric | 3 hours before onset | 2 hours before onset | 1 hour before onset | 0 hours before onset |
| AUROCa | 0.84 | 0.82 | 0.82 | 0.85 |
| AUPRCb | 0.68 | 0.67 | 0.65 | 0.67 |
| Accuracy (95% CI)c | 0.81 (0.73, 0.89) | 0.79 (0.71, 0.87) | 0.79 (0.71, 0.87) | 0.79 (0.71, 0.87) |
| Sensitivity | 0.74 | 0.63 | 0.63 | 0.63 |
| Specificity | 0.83 | 0.83 | 0.83 | 0.83 |
| Positive predictive value | 0.50 | 0.46 | 0.46 | 0.46 |
| Proportion of predicted sepsis | 0.29 | 0.27 | 0.27 | 0.27 |
aAUROC: area under the receiver operating characteristic curve.
bAUPRC: area under the precision-recall curve.
cOperating points for the algorithm were chosen during training and internal validation to keep sensitivity at approximately 0.80.