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Table 5 Sensitivity and specificity of each individual item of the proposed PTA scale

From: Development and external validation of a new PTA assessment scale

Item

 1   st   administration 

 one hour after 1   st   administration 

 24 hours after 1   st   administration 

 

Sens. (n = 132)

Spec. (n = 30)

Sens. (n = 21)

Spec. (n = 22)

Sens. (n = 46)

Spec. (n = 19)

1. Age

5

100

0

100

2

100

2. Name of place

14

100

5

100

7

100

3. Mode of transport

25

100

29

100

15

100

4. Time

24

86

29

100

22

89

5. Day

13

100

5

100

17

100

6. Month

6

100

5

100

7

100

7. 3-words, recall

58

77

60

91

77

95

3-words, recognition

27

97

25

96

42

100

  1. PTA, post-traumatic amnesia; Sens., sensitivity, %; Spec., specificity, %.