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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2022 Oct 20;31(12):1294–1299. doi: 10.1002/pds.5549

TABLE 2.

Performance of Algorithm 2 at various lipase cutoffs

Lipase
cutpoint (U/L)
Proportion of study patients ≥ lipase cutoff
among study patients with confirmed AP
(meeting criteria for Algorithm 1) (%)
Individuals without AP below
lipase cutoff (meeting criteria
for Algorithm 1) (%)
Positive predictive
value (PPV, %)
Negative predictive
value (NPV, %)
100.0 93.0 30.4 71.4 70.0
150.0 90.7 47.8 76.4 73.3
200.0 88.4 56.5 79.1 72.2
250.0 86.1 60.9 80.4 70.0
300.0 83.7 60.9 80.0 66.7