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Table 4 Diagnostic goodness criteria of Pentraxin-3 for diagnosis of sepsis and septic shock during the first week of ICU treatment

From: Diagnostic value of Pentraxin-3 in patients with sepsis and septic shock in accordance with latest sepsis-3 definitions

 

AUC

cutoff

(ng/ml)

accuracy

(%)

sensitivity

(%)

specificity

(%)

PPV

(%)

NPV

(%)

relative risk

p value

Day 1

  ≥ Sepsis

0.92

5

92

98

79

92

93

13.6

0.0001

  ≥ Septic shock

0.81

9

68

93

45

61

87

4.8

0.0001

Day 3

  ≥ Sepsis

0.84

5

84

95

67

82

89

7.6

0.0001

  ≥ Septic shock

0.73

9

61

85

50

44

88

3.6

0.0001

Day 8

  ≥ Sepsis

0.82

5

74

92

64

59

94

9.4

0.0001

  ≥ Septic shock

0.79

9

66

72

65

31

92

3.6

0.0001

  1. AUC Area under curve, PPV and NPV positive and negative predictive values