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. 2022 Nov 1;10(11):e36711. doi: 10.2196/36711

Table 6.

Performances of the Damerau-Levenshtein distance (DLD)–based matching algorithm per birth country and per university hospital.

University hospital Sample size Sea,b BIFc, % (95% CI) Seb BOOFd, % (95% CI) P value
Fisher exact test
Speb BIF, % (95% CI) Spb BOOF, % (95% CI) P value
Fisher exact test
Nantes Se, BIF: 2000
Se, BOOF: 1660
Sp, BIF: 2000
Sp, BOOF: 2000
85.8 (84.3-87.3) 74.9 (72.8-77) <.001 99.3 (98.9-99.7) 99.8 (99.6-100) .03
Rennes Se, BIF: 2000
Se, BOOF: 500
Sp, BIF: 2000
Sp, BOOF: 2000
97.8 (97.1-98.4) 87.6 (84.7-90.5) <.001 98.2 (97.6-98.7) 99.8 (99.5-100) <.001
Lille Se, BIF: 2000
Se, BOOF: 1700
Sp, BIF: 2000
Sp, BOOF: 2000
98.3 (97.7-98.9) 86.8 (85.2-88.4) <.001 99.4 (99-99.7) 99.4 (90-99.7) >.99

aSe: sensitivity.

bMax total distance used: 2

cBIF: patient born in France.

dBOOF: patient born out of France.

eSp: specificity.