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From: The diagnostic and prognostic significance of monitoring blood levels of immature neutrophils in patients with systemic inflammation

Figure 3

Receiver operating characteristic curves of the percentage of band cells to discriminate definite sepsis from non-infectious systemic inflammatory response syndrome, no systemic inflammatory response syndrome and healthy controls. (A) For identifying patients with definite sepsis, the optimal cutoff value of >8.5% band cells returned a sensitivity of 84.3% (95% confidence interval (CI) = 71.4% to 92.9%), a specificity of 71.4% (95% CI = 58.7% to 82.1%) and a likelihood ratio of 13.9. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve was 0.80 (95% CI = 0.72 to 0.88). (B) On the basis of the optimal cutoff value (>8.5%), 20 of 32 patients with possible sepsis had elevated band cells.

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