Table 5 Classification of other diagnosis by the chest wall syndrome (CWS) clinical prediction rule
From: Development and validation of a clinical prediction rule for chest wall syndrome in primary care
Diagnostic groups | Classification by the CWS rule | |
|---|---|---|
False positive N = 41 | True negative N = 476 | |
Musculoskeletal (non-CWS) | 18 | 23 |
Traumatic | 14 | 10 |
Parietal metastasis | 0 | 7 |
Post-thoracotomy | 2 | 4 |
Arthritis/arthrosis | 2 | 2 |
Cardiovascular | 3 | 105 |
Stable angina | 3 | 72 |
Unstable angina | 0 | 6 |
Myocardial infarction | 0 | 4 |
Pulmonary embolism | 0 | 2 |
Arrythmia | 0 | 10 |
Valvular disease | 0 | 2 |
Cardiac insufficiency | 0 | 3 |
Cardiomyopathy | 0 | 1 |
Acute hypertension | 0 | 5 |
Psychogenic | 10 | 66 |
Anxious | 6 | 48 |
Somatisation | 4 | 18 |
Pulmonary | 2 | 66 |
Infectious | 2 | 53 |
Non-infectious | 0 | 13 |
Digestive | 3 | 52 |
Peptic affections | 1 | 46 |
Non-peptic affections | 2 | 6 |
Miscellaneous | 5 | 7 |
Mastitis/mastalgia | 4 | 1 |
Cutaneous abcess | 0 | 1 |
Herpes zoster | 1 | 1 |
Sarcoidosis | 0 | 2 |
Chest wall keloid | 0 | 1 |
Acute pyelonephritis | 0 | 1 |