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Table 3 Diagnostic performance analysis of serum parameters and severity score for CAP patients

From: N-myc and STAT interactor is a novel biomarker of severity in community-acquired pneumonia: a prospective study

 

Prediction of mortality

Prediction of ICU admission

Cut-off value

AUC (95% CI)

AUC (95% CI) §

Sensitivity (%)

Specificity (%)

Youden index

Cut-off value

AUC (95% CI)

AUC (95% CI) §

Sensitivity (%)

Specificity (%)

Youden index

NMI (pg/ml)

55.48

0.91 (0.86–0.96)

0.91 (0.85–0.95)

87.10

85.12

0.72

55.48

0.92 (0.88–0.97)

0.92 (0.88–0.96)

86.96

88.22

0.75

PCT (ng/ml)

0.89

0.79** (0.70–0.88)

0.80 (0.70–0.88)

64.52

86.61

0.51

0.80

0.80** (0.72–0.88)

0.80 (0.73–0.88)

65.32

87.76

0.53

CRP (mg/l)

125.1

0.78** (0.69–0.87)

0.78 (0.68–0.86)

61.29

75.12

0.36

123.5

0.76*** (0.69–0.84)

0.76 (0.69–0.83)

56.51

85.30

0.42

WBC (10^9/l)

13.15

0.59*** (0.47–0.71)

0.59 (0.47–0.70)

35.48

84.81

0.20

14.85

0.58*** (0.48–0.69)

0.58 (0.47–0.68)

32.61

90.20

0.23

Neutrophils (10^9/l)

5.55

0.65*** (0.54–0.75)

0.65 (0.54–0.74)

80.65

45.73

0.26

11.20

0.63*** (0.53–0.72)

0.63 (0.52–0.72)

36.96

87.05

0.24

NCP(%)

77.15

0.78** (0.70–0.86)

0.78 (0.70–0.85)

90.32

58.84

0.49

81.45

0.73*** (0.65–0.82)

0.73 (0.65–0.82)

69.57

72.33

0.42

PSI

3.5

0.85&& (0.77–0.94)

0.85 (0.77–0.92)

88.43

77.42

0.66

3.5

0.84&&& (0.77–0.90)

0.84 (0.77–0.90)

65.22

89.66

0.55

N-PSI

3.5

0.91 (0.86–0.96)

0.91 (0.86–0.95)

86.78

83.87

0.71

2.5

0.90 (0.86–0.94)

0.90 (0.86–0.93)

91.30

74.71

0.66

CURB65 score

1.5

0.86## (0.77–0.95)

0.86 (0.76–0.93)

83.87

87.60

0.71

1.5

0.84### (0.76–0.91)

0.84 (0.76–0.90)

73.91

89.37

0.63

N-CURB65 score

2.5

0.93 (0.89–0.97)

0.93 (0.89–0.96)

83.87

92.84

0.77

1.5

0.92 (0.89–0.96)

0.92 (0.89–0.95)

80.43

86.49

0.67

  1. N-CURB65: combined NMI with CURB65 score, N-PSI: combined NMI with PSI; *: P < 0.05, **: P < 0.01, ***: P < 0.001 compared with NMI using the z statistic; &&: P < 0.01, &&&: P < 0.001 compared with N-PSI using the nonparametric method of DeLong et al.; ##: P < 0.01, ###: P < 0.001 compared with N-CURB65 score using the nonparametric method of DeLong et al., §: Internally validated AUC with 95% CI by bootstrap