Prediction of mortality and functional outcome from status epilepticus and independent external validation of STESS and EMSE scores

Table 3 Quantitative description of the choice of EMSE combinations and STESS for predicting functional outcomes

	AUROC (cutoff point)	Sensitivity	Specificity	NPV	PPV	Accuracy
EMSE-ECEg	0.777 (>51)	0.82	0.60	0.73	0.72	0.73
EMSE-ECLEg	0.793 (>77)	0.72	0.75	0.68	0.79	0.73
EMSE-ALDEg	0.747 (>58)	0.73	0.74	0.60	0.84	0.73
STESS	0.610 (≥4)	0.81	0.44	0.54	0.75	0.61

AUROC area under a receiver-operating characteristic curve, EMSE epidemiology-based mortality score in status epilepticus (E, etiology; A, age; C, comorbidity; L, level of consciousness at pretreatment; D, duration; Eg, electroencephalography), NPV negative predictive value, PPV positive predictive value, STESS status epilepticus severity score

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