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Table 4 Sensitivity and specificity of NEWS-2 and DEWS for predicting clinically significant deterioration within 4 h in the validation dataset

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

 

Sensitivity (%)

Specificity (%)

False positive rate*

False negative rate*

NEWS-2 ≥ 5

88.2

54.2

43.2

0.67

DEWS ≥ 0.032

88.3

69.2

29.0

0.66

DEWS ≥ 0.021

93.6

54.3

43.1

0.36

NEWS-2 ≥ 7

71.4

80.8

18.1

1.62

DEWS ≥ 0.073

71.5

88.0

11.4

1.61

DEWS ≥ 0.050

80.0

80.8

18.2

1.13

  1. *Percentage of all observation sets
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