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Table 3 Measures of diagnostic accuracy of primary reporting on WBCT and secondary reporting after additional imaging

From: Incidence and underreporting of osseous wrist and hand injuries on whole-body computed tomographies at a level 1 trauma center

Index test

TP

FP

TN

FN

Sensitivity (95% CI)

Specificity (95% CI)

PPV (95% CI)

NPV (95% CI)

Primary reporting on WBCT

4

0

447

55

6.8% (1.9–16.5%)

100.0% (99.2–100.0%)

100.0% (39.8–100.0%)

89.0% (86.0–91.6%)

Secondary imaging and reporting

47

0

447

12

79.7% (67.2–89.0%)

100.0% (99.2–100.0%)

100.0% (92.5–100.0%)

97.4% (95.5–98.6%)

  1. TP True positive, FP False positive, TN True negative, FN False negative, PPV Positive predicted value, NPV Negative predicted value, CI Confidence interval