Table 6 The Danish Regions Pediatric triage as a screening tool to detect the most urgent and non-urgent children
Gold standard | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Standard reference | Clinical outcome | |||
I | II | III | IV | |
Ability to detect very urgent patients | Ability to detect the no-urgent patients | Ability to detect critically ill patients (1) | Ability to detect patients who went home with no treatment | |
Number of patients | ||||
True positive | 15 | 37 | 5 | 132 |
True negative | 479 | 316 | 492 | 143 |
False positive | 23 | 161 | 33 | 66 |
False negative | 33 | 36 | 20 | 209 |
Screening values | ||||
Sensitivity | 31% (19-46) | 51% (39-63) | 20% (7-41) | 39% (34-44) |
Specificity | 95% (93-97) | 66% (62-71) | 94% (91-96) | 68% (62-75) |
Positive predictive value | 40% (24-57) | 19% (14-25) | 13% (4-28) | 67% (60-73) |
Negative predictive value | 94% (91-96) | 90% (86-93) | 96% (94-98) | 41% (36-46) |
Accuracy | 90% (87-92) | 64% (60-68) | 90% (88-93) | 50% (46-54) |
Likelihood ratios | ||||
of positive test | 6.8 (3.8-12.2) | 1.5 (1.2-2.0) | 3.2 (1.4-7.5) | 1.2 (0.9-1.6) |
of negative test | a7 (a6-0.9) | a7 (0.6-a9) | 0.9 (0.7-1.0) | ag (a8-1.0) |