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Table 2 Summary statistics of possible systolic blood pressure thresholds in predicting 7-day mortality for the three cohorts

From: Systolic blood pressure and short-term mortality in the emergency department and prehospital setting: a hospital-based cohort study

 

Sensitivity

Specificity

PPV

NPV

LR+

LR-

FP

FN

FP/FN trade-off*

Emergency department

<90 mmHg

12 (11-14)

99 (99-99)

22 (20-25)

98 (98-98)

15 (14-18)

0.89 (0.87-0.9)

871

1815

1 (ref)

<100 mmHg

19 (17-20)

98 (98-98)

15 (14-16)

98 (98-99)

9.4 (8.5-10)

0.83 (0.81-0.85)

2193

1679

10

<110 mmHg

27 (25-29)

94 (94-95)

8 (8-9)

99 (99-99)

4.8 (4.5-5.2)

0.78 (0.76-0.8)

6116

1512

17

<120 mmHg

36 (33-38)

87 (87-87)

5 (5-5)

99 (99-99)

2.7 (2.6-2.9)

0.74 (0.72-0.76)

14329

1331

28

Ambulance

<90 mmHg

10 (7-13)

99 (98-99)

13 (9-18)

98 (98-98)

6.7 (4.8-9.4)

0.92 (0.88-0.95)

228

321

1 (ref)

<100 mmHg

18 (14-22)

97 (96-97)

11 (8-13)

98 (98-98)

5.2 (4.1-6.5)

0.85 (0.81-0.89)

540

292

11

<110 mmHg

27 (22-32)

92 (92-93)

7 (6-9)

98 (98-98)

3.4 (2.9-4.1)

0.79 (0.74-0.84)

1214

260

16

<120 mmHg

37 (32-43)

84 (83-84)

5 (4-6)

98 (98-99)

2.3 (2-2.6)

0.75 (0.69-0.81)

2540

223

24

MECU

<90 mmHg

16 (14-19)

96 (96-97)

21 (17-24)

95 (95-95)

4.3 (3.6-5.2)

0.87 (0.84-0.9)

440

588

1 (ref)

<100 mmHg

25 (22-29)

93 (92-93)

18 (16-21)

95 (95-96)

3.6 (3.1-4.2)

0.8 (0.77-0.84)

813

524

6

<110 mmHg

34 (31-38)

88 (87-88)

14 (13-16)

96 (95-96)

2.7 (2.5-3.1)

0.75 (0.71-0.79)

1443

462

8

<120 mmHg

43 (40-47)

79 (78-80)

11 (10-12)

96 (95-96)

2.1 (1.9-2.3)

0.72 (0.67-0.76)

2417

398

10

  1. *The FP/FN trade-off expresses the additional number of false positive results for one less false negative result that comes with increasing the systolic blood pressure threshold from 90 mmHg. Values in parentheses are 95% confidence intervals. PPV, positive predictive value; NPV, negative predictive value; LR+, positive likelihood ratio; LR-, negative likelihood ratio; FP, false positives; FN, false negatives; MECU, mobile emergency care unit.