Research Article

Evaluation of Two Methods for Determination of CD64 as a Diagnostic Marker of Infection in Critically Ill Adults

Table 4

Utility of CD 64 markers categorized according to the cutoff that for each method maximized specificity ensuring at least 90% sensitivity [actually 91.2% (95% CI 90.7–91.6%)].

Method #1Method #2
AUC0.925 (0.853–0.997)0.933 (0.872–0.995)
Cutoff2.41.3

After categorization
 TP3131
 FP127
 TN4348
 FN33
 Specificity78.2% (77.6%–78.8%)87.3% (86.9%–87.7%)
 Kappa0.66 (0.55–0.77)0.77 (0.67–0.86)
 Accuracy83.2% (82.8%–3.5%)88.8% (88.5%–89.0%)
 PPV72.1% (71.2%–73.0%)81.6% (80.8%–82.4%)
 NPV93.5% (93.2%–93.7%)94.1% (93.9%–94.3%)

AUC: area under the curve; TP: true positive; FP: false positive; TN: true negative; FN: false negative; PPV: positive predictive value; NPV: negative predictive value.