Research Article

Predicting Venous Thromboembolic Events in Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 Requiring Hospitalization: an Observational Retrospective Study by the COVIDIC Initiative in a Swiss University Hospital

Table 4

Performance of different combinations of D-dimer values and Wells score for PE in predicting VTE upon admission.

Sensitivity (%)Specificity (%)PPV (%)NPV (%)Accuracy

D-dimer 71.487.999.087.40.797
Wells score for 71.477.49.398.80.772
Wells score for and D-dimer 57.191.618.298.50.905
Wells score for points or D-dimer value 92.946.95.499.50.483

PPV: positive predictive value; NPV: negative predictive value.