Table 2 The sensitivity, specificity, and diagnostic OR of the three scoring systems (AECG as the diagnostic criteria).

From: Diagnostic accuracy of salivary gland ultrasonography with different scoring systems in Sjögren’s syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis

 

Cut-off value

Sensitivity (95% Cl)

Specificity (95% Cl)

Diagnostic OR (95%Cl)

0–4scoring system

 

0.75 (0.71–0.79)

0.93 (0.90–0.95)

71.26 (42.29–120.09)

   El Miedany et al.10

≥1

0.94 (0.82–0.99)

0.95 (0.83–0.99)

278.67 (44.21–1756.56)

   Niemela et al.2

≥1

0.78 (0.58–0.91)

0.94 (0.85–0.99)

59.50 (13.60–260.37)

   Theander et al.25

≥2

0.52 (0.42–0.62)

0.98 (0.91–1.00)

61.60 (8.22–461.650)

   Baldini et al.27

≥2

0.66 (0.51–0.79)

0.98 (0.91–1.00)

108.71 (13.83–854.74)

   Zhou et al.31

≥2

0.62 (0.50–0.73)

0.98 (0.89–1.00)

78.22 (10.20–600.03)

   Chen et al.32

≥1

0.92 (0.81–0.98)

0.92 (0.81–0.98)

135.13 (31.88–572.78)

   Qi et al.33

≥2

0.90 (0.84–0.95)

0.83 (0.75–0.90)

47.06 (21.93–100.97)

0–16 scoring system

 

0.84 (0.81–0.87)

0.88 (0.85–0.91)

46.3 (19.95–107.44)

   Salaffi et al.16

≥6

0.75 (0.64–0.84)

0.84 (0.74–0.91)

15.50 (7.04–34.11)

   Xu et al.20

≥8

0.93 (0.81–0.99)

0.97 (0.88–1.00)

389.50 (62.25–2437.01)

   Milic et al.23

≥7

0.86 (0.79–0.91)

0.94 (0.83–0.99)

94.00 (26.68–331.22)

   Zhang et al.28

≥7

0.80 (0.71–0.87)

0.93 (0.83–0.98)

53.00 (17.24–162.95)

   Lin et al.29

≥6

0.80 (0.65–0.90)

0.78 (0.64–0.88)

13.79 (5.11–37.19)

   Qi et al.33

≥5

0.90 (0.84–0.95)

0.87 (0.79–0.93)

63.16 (28.34–140.75)

0–48 scoring system

 

0.75 (0.70–0.80)

0.95 (0.91–0.97)

66.07 (33.73–129.42)

   Hocevar et al.13

≥17

0.59 (0.46–0.71)

0.99 (0.95–1.00)

105.71 (24.15–462.76)

   Milic et al.18

≥19

0.65 (0.56–0.74)

1.00 (0.88–1.00)

107.16 (6.36–1804.92)

   Zhang et al.28

≥15

0.89 (0.81–0.94)

0.84 (0.72–0.93)

41.33 (16.28–104.95)

   Lin et al.29

≥17

0.91 (0.78–0.97)

0.92 (0.81–0.98)

115.00 (27.00–489.88)

  1. OR = odd ratio.