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Table 5 Performance of the basic life support termination-of-resuscitation rule for predicting one-month death a

From: Termination-of-resuscitation rule for emergency department physicians treating out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients: an observational cohort study

 

BLS TOR rule

Validation group

Fulfilled 3/3 criteria

Did not fulfill criteria

(N= 105,030)

(n= 85,728, 81.6%)

(n= 19,302, 18.4%)

Death, n

84,723

15,752

Survival, n

1,005

3,550

Sensitivity (95% CI)

0.843 (0.841 to 0.846)

Specificity (95% CI)

0.779 (0.767 to 0.791)

PPV (95% CI)

0.988 (0.988 to 0.989)

NPV (95% CI)

0.184 (0.179 to 0.189)

Area under the ROC curve (95% CI)

0.811 (0.809 to 0.813)

  1. aBLS, basic life support; CI, confidence interval; NPV, negative predictive value; PPV, positive predictive value; ROC, receiver operating characteristic; TOR, termination of resuscitation.
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