Table 2 Sensitivity and specificity of the two assessed clinical screening checklists

From: Clinical relevance of screening checklists for detecting cancer predisposition syndromes in Asian childhood tumours

Measure

Checklist

By Ripperger et al.

By Postema et al.

In combination

Checklist screening outcome, No. (%)

Not evaluateda

1 (1.0)

1 (1.0)

1 (1.0)

Evaluated positive

79 (77.5)

66 (64.7)

54 (52.9)

Evaluated negative

22 (21.5)

35 (34.3)

10 (9.8)

Evaluation outcomeb, No. (%)

Checklist positive with pathogenic germline mutation

10 (9.9)

10 (9.9)

10 (9.9)

Checklist positive without pathogenic germline mutation

69 (68.3)

56 (55.4)

44 (43.6)

Checklist negative with pathogenic germline mutation

0

0

0

Checklist negative without pathogenic germline mutation

22 (21.8)

35 (34.7)

47 (46.5)

Checklist assessment (%)

Sensitivity

100

100

100

Specificity

24

38

52

  1. aPatient excluded due to incomplete clinical data
  2. bCalculation excluded patient not evaluated on checklist