Value of soluble TREM-1, procalcitonin, and C-reactive protein serum levels as biomarkers for detecting bacteremia among sepsis patients with new fever in intensive care units: a prospective cohort study

Table 4 Area under ROC curve as a means of differentiating nonsurvivors from blood culture-positives

variable	AUC	Std. Error	P value	Asymptotic 95% Confidence Interval		Cut point	sen	spe	PPV	NPV	PLR	NLR	YI
				Lower limit	Upper limit
sTREM-1	0.868	0.066	0.001	0.74	0.997	126.94	1.0	0.68	0.61	1.00	3.33	0.13	0.68
PCT	0.789	0.085	0.012	0.624	0.955	2.26	0.9	0.63	0.55	0.86	2.57	0.27	0.53

PPV Positive Predictive Value; NPV Negtive Predictive Value; PLR Positive Likelihood Ratio; NLR Negative Likelihood Ratio; YI Youden Index.

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