Skip to main content

Table 4 Accuracy of suspected diagnoses during resuscitation based on data of 4,049 HEMS and 6,551 GEMS patients with emergency physicians' preclinical documentation of suspected injuries, respectively

From: Survival benefit of helicopter emergency medical services compared to ground emergency medical services in traumatized patients

 

Sensitivity

Specificity

Positive predictive value

 

HEMS

GEMS

P -value

HEMS

GEMS

P -value

HEMS

GEMS

P -value

Head

88.9%

88.9%

0.99

60.4%

65.8%

<0.001

78.1%

82.2%

<0.001

Chest

68.4%

67.0%

0.22

71.5%

74.8%

0.022

81.4%

79.4%

0.075

Abdomen

51.5%

55.8%

0.032

74.9%

79.1%

<0.001

40.9%

44.6%

0.044

Upper extremity

63.2%

63.7%

0.74

80.1%

80.6%

0.61

70.7%

67.4

0.030

Lower Extremity

79.7%

79.3%

0.75

84.2%

85.3%

0.25

78.5%

77.6%

0.48

Spine

55.9%

55.8%

0.94

75.4%

80.4%

<0.001

56.7%

56.3%

0.83

Pelvis

54.8%

56.8%

0.37

83.8%

86.3%

0.002

49.9%

51.7%

0.36