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Table 3 Accuracy of NTS urgency level and ‘final’ urgency allocation for detecting LTE (prevalence of 16.6%) of 1833 callers who called the OHS-PC with SOB

From: Accuracy of urgency allocation in patients with shortness of breath calling out-of-hours primary care: a cross-sectional study

 

NTS urgency allocation (95% CI)

‘Final’ urgency allocation (95% CI)

Sensitivity

0.56 (0.50–0.61)

0.54 (0.48–0.60)

Specificity

0.61 (0.58–0.63)

0.65 (0.63–0.67)

Positive predictive value

0.22 (0.19–0.25)

0.24 (0.21–0.27)

Negative predictive value

0.87 (0.85–0.89)

0.88 (0.86–0.89)

  1. LTE life-threatening events, NTS Netherlands triage standard, OHS-PC out-of-hours primary care, SOB: shortness of breath
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