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Table 4 Prediction models for clinical outcome in patients with cryptococcal meningitis

From: The utility of cerebrospinal fluid white cell count during the prognostic assessment for cryptococcal meningitis patients: a retrospective study

Items

Model 1 (week 0)

Model 2 (week 0-week 10)

Sensitivity

0.8828571

0.9035714

Specificity

0.6950000

0.7100000

Positive prediction value

0.8410332

0.8505685

Negative prediction value

0.7917769

0.8306219

Accuracy

0.81454545

0.83318182

AUC

0.8832813

0.8985045

The importance of variables to the predictive model

 Treatment (no treatment)

98.00

97.7358

 Positive CSF ink stain

91.491

92.6038

 Age

89.6036

88.6226

 Charlson index

85.5472

80.8676

 Treatment (monotherapy)

81.434

86.0568

 Treatment (triple therapy)

79.3774

81.1326

 Hemoglobin

76.1708

76.982

 Negative CSF fungal culture

72.9062

73.5666

 Neutrophile

68.3962

60.7552

 CSF proteins

67.6798

57.0194

 White blood cell

67.4152

49.2082

 Male

64.245

58.2074

CSF WCC

 week 0

92.3776

91.472

 Week 1

NA

15.6604

 Week 2

NA

21.1326

 Week 3

NA

10.2644

 Week 4

NA

7.2828

 Week 5

NA

17.17

 Week 6

NA

14.1516

 Week 7

NA

5.4718

 Week 8

NA

3.7928

 Week 10

NA

22.095

  1. CSF cerebrospinal fluid, WCC white cell count, NA Not applicable. Only variables whose importance was greater than zero were displayed