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Table 4 Sensivity, specificity and agreement for diabetes mellitus and hypertension.

From: Validation of diabetes mellitus and hypertension diagnosis in computerized medical records in primary health care

 

TN

FN

FP

TP

Inter-observers agreement

kappa (CI 95%)

Sensitivity %

(CI 95%)

χ2

p-value

Specificity %

(CI 95%)

χ2

p-value

Diagnostic agreement

kappa (CI 95%)

Diabetes

390

2

2

421

0.988 (0.977 - 0.998)

99.53 (98.29 - 99.87)

 

99.49 (98.16 - 99.86)

 

0.990 (0.981 - 1)

- Male

188

1

1

207

0.985 (0.968 - 1)

99.52 (97.33 - 99.92)

1*

99.52 (97.34 - 99.92)

1*

0.990 (0.976 - 1)

- Female

202

1

1

214

0.990 (0.977 - 1)

99.54 (97.41 - 99.92)

 

99.53 (97.40 - 99.92)

 

0.990 (0.977 - 1)

- Age < 70

198

1

1

207

0.980 (0.961 - 1)

99.52 (97.33 - 99.92)

1*

99.50 (97.21 - 99.91)

1*

0.990 (0.977 - 1)

- Age ≥ 70

192

1

1

214

0.995 (0.985 - 1)

99.54 (97.41 - 99.92)

 

99.48 (97.12 - 99.91)

 

0.990 (0.977 - 1)

Hypertension

254

72

8

415

0.941 (0.916 - 0.967)

85.22 (81.79 - 88.09)

 

96.95 (94.09 - 98.45)

 

0.778 (0.732 - 0.823)

- Male

32

32

3

172

0.937 (0.897 - 0.978)

96.95 (94.09 - 98.45)

0.634

97.30 (92.35 - 99.08)

1*

0.770 (0.700 - 0.841)

- Female

40

40

5

243

0.944 (0.911 - 0.977)

85.87 (81.33 - 89.45)

 

96.69 (92.48 - 98.58)

 

0.783 (0.724 - 0.842)

- Age < 70

119

18

5

173

0.96 (0.928 - 0.992)

90.58 (85.6 - 93.96)

0.007

95.97 (90.91 - 98.27)

0.482*

0.850 (0.791 - 0.909)

- Age ≥ 70

135

54

3

242

0.926 (0.888 - 0.964)

81.76 (76.96 - 85.74)

 

97.83 (93.80 - 99.26)

 

0.724 (0.660 - 0.789)

- Without DM

232

46

7

312

0.947 (0.921 - 0.974)

87.15 (83.29 - 90.23)

0.045

97.07 (94.08 - 98.57)

0.526*

0.947 (0.921 - 0.974)

- With DM

22

26

1

103

0.882 (0.781 - 0.983)

79.85 (72.11 - 85.86)

 

95.65 (79.01 - 99.23)

 

0.522 (0.376 - 0.668)

  1. * Fisher's exact bilateral test; TP: true positive; FP: false positive; TN: true negative; FN: false negative; CI 95%: confidence interval at 95%; DM: diabetes mellitus.