Gold Standard Evaluation of an Automatic HAIs Surveillance System

Table 7

Results obtained from the InNoCBR intelligent diagnostic module when compared with the gold standard, for a 95% confidence interval.

Sensitivity^∗ HAIs	Specificity^∗ HAIs	PPV^∗ HAIs	NPV^∗ HAIs	kappa^∗ index
81.06%	79.76%	77.24%	83.25%	0.62
(70.38–88.67)	(69.94–87.09)	(66.50–85.42)	(73.57–90.01)	(0.52–0.71)

^∗Adjusted values for the following prevalences (EPINE 2012): urinary = 1.54%, respiratory = 1.97%, bloodstream = 1.38%, surgical = 2.61%, cutaneous = 0.31%, enteric = 0.15%, other = 1.72%.