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Table 2 Area under the receiver operating characteristic and precision-recall curves for the prediction of clinical outcomes by NEWS-2 and DEWS

From: Dynamic early warning scores for predicting clinical deterioration in patients with respiratory disease

Outcome (Dataset)

NEWS-2 AUROC (95% CI)

DEWS AUROC (95% CI)

NEWS-2 AUPRC (95% CI)

DEWS AUPRC (95% CI)

D/ICU (training data)

0.865 (0.862–0.868)

0.902 (0.893–0.910)

0.206 (0.199–0.212)

0.290 (0.263–0.317)

D/ICU (validation data)

0.857 (0.852–0.862)

0.906 (0.899–0.914)

0.230 (0.219–0.242)

0.331 (0.301–0.359)

CSD (training data)

0.817 (0.809–0.825)

0.857 (0.837–0.872)

0.263 (0.247–0.279)

0.323 (0.266–0.377)

CSD (validation data)

0.829 (0.817–0.842)

0.877 (0.862–0.892)

0.285 (0.259–0.318)

0.402 (0.346–0.455)

  1. NEWS-2 National Early Warning Score-2, DEWS dynamic early warning score, AUROC area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, AUPRC area under the precision-recall curve, CI confidence interval, D/ICU death or intensive care unit admission, occurring within 24 h, CSD clinically significant deterioration, occurring within 4 h