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.