Research Article

Procalcitonin Improves the Glasgow Prognostic Score for Outcome Prediction in Emergency Patients with Cancer: A Cohort Study

Table 4

Diagnostic performance of GPS at different cut-offs.

Cut-pointSensitivity
(CI 95%)
Specificity
(CI 95%)
LR+
(CI 95%)
LR− 
(CI 95%)
PPV
(CI 95%)
NPV
(CI 95%)

Score
1 point
93.8%
(86.2% to 98.0%)
23.8%
(18.8% to 29.5%)
1.23
(1.13 to 1.35)
0.26
(0.11 to 0.62)
27.7%
(22.5% to 33.4%)
92.5%
(83.4% to 97.5%)

Score
2 points
84.0%
(74.1% to 91.2%)
49.2%
(43.0% to 55.5%)
1.65
(1.42 to 1.93)
0.33
(0.20 to 0.54)
34.0%
(27.5% to 41.0%)
90.8%
(84.7% to 95.0%)

LR+: positive likelihood ratio; LR−: negative likelihood ratio; PPV: positive predictive value; NPV: negative predictive value.