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Table 3 Predictive value of serum UCH-L1 and GFAP levels for death (GOS 1) in hospital after severe traumatic brain injury

From: Neuronal and glial markers are differently associated with computed tomography findings and outcome in patients with severe traumatic brain injury: a case control study

  

In HospitalMortality

Variable

Cutoff

Sensitivity

Specificity

PPV

NPV

UCH-L1

1.89

0.52

0.96

0.52

0.72

GFAP

1.44

0.67

0.86

0.72

0.82

  1. GFAP: glial fibrillary acidic protein; GOS: Glasgow Outcome Scale; NPV: negative predictive value; PPV: positive predictive value; UCH-L1: ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase-L1 protein.
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