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Table 3 Performance of the revised ABSST total score at various cut-points* predicting Clinician’s Urologist Referral

From: Development of a short form and scoring algorithm from the validated actionable bladder symptom screening tool

Cut-Point±

Odds

Sensitivity2

Specificity3

Positive

Negative

% Warranting

c-statistic7

 

ratio1

    

referral6

 
    

Predictive value (%)4

Predictive value (%)5

  

>= 21

  .

2.04

100.00

100.0

68.0

68.2

0.510

>= 9

55.53

69.39

96.08

89.5

86.7

87.4

0.827

>= 6

81.43

85.71

93.14

85.7

93.1

90.7

0.894

>= 4

33.54

93.88

68.63

59.0

95.9

76.8

0.813

>= 1

8.28

97.96

14.71

35.6

93.8

41.7

0.563

  1. * Only quartiles and key cut points are displayed in the table.
  2. The cut point is defined as different total raw scores on the ABSST ranging from 0 to 24.
  3. 1 The odds ratio was defined as those MS patients more likely to be referred to a urologist than not. Values > 1 indicated that the patient is that many more times (for example 8.28) likely to be referred to a urologist.
  4. 2 The sensitivity refers to those results that are true results (e.g. would refer to a urologist). Minimum criteria was ≥0.75.
  5. 3 Specificity refers to those results that are truly negative results (e.g. would NOT refer to a urologist). Minimum criteria was ≥0.80.
  6. 4 PPV refers to proportion of positive test results that are true positives (e.g. proportion of patients who would warrant a referral to a urologist). Values closer to 100% approximates higher proportion of true positives.
  7. 5 NPV refers to the proportion of negative results that are true negatives (e.g. the proportion of patients who would NOT warrant a referral to a urologist are not referred). Values closer to 100% approximates higher proportions of true negatives.
  8. 6 The percent of classified patients is the percentage of patients who are warranted to be referred to a urologist or not.
  9. 7 The c-statistic is the area under the ROC curve. Values closer to 1 approximate a perfect model.