Table 1 Analysis for sensitivity and specificity comparing VAC-surveillance to the gold standard. Cut-off indicates the percentage setting of the lowest outliers being excluded at import. Threshold shows different tolerance threshold settings for including respiratory deterioration as significant according to VAE rules.

From: An automated retrospective VAE-surveillance tool for future quality improvement studies

Mode

Cut-off

Threshold

TP

FP

FN

TN

Total

Sensitivity

Specificity

Auto

5%

10%

42

0

1

89

132

0.98

1

Auto

0%

10%

27

8

16

85

136

0.63

0.91

Auto

10%

10%

39

4

4

87

134

0.91

0.96

Auto

5%

0%

42

0

1

89

132

0.98

1

Auto

5%

10%

42

0

1

89

132

0.98

1

Auto

5%

20%

42

0

1

89

132

0.98

1

Manual

Visual

Visual

32

4

10

86

132

0.76

0.96

  1. TP True Positive; FP False Positive; FN False Negative; TN True Negative; VAC Ventilator Associated Condition.