Usefulness of qSOFA and ECOG Scores for Predicting Hospital Mortality in Postsurgical Cancer Patients without Infection

Table 2

Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, positive likelihood ratio, and negative likelihood ratio for quick sequential organ failure assessment (qSOFA) and Eastern Cooperative Oncologic Group (ECOG) for in-hospital mortality.

Finding	qSOFA				ECOG
	>0	>1	>2	>3	>0	>1	>2	>3
Sensitivity, %	100.0	34.4	0	0	89.6	55.1	24.1	10.3
Specificity, %	38.8	90.21	99.6	100.0	29.7	74.4	88.8	97.5
Positive predictive value, %	14.2	26.3	0	0	11.5	18.0	17.9	30.0
Negative predictive value, %	100	93.1	90.8	90.8	96.6	94.2	92.0	91.5
Positive likelihood ratio	1.63	3.52	0.0	0.0	1.2	2.16	2.16	4.2
Negative likelihood ratio	0.0	0.73	1.00	1.00	0.35	0.60	0.85	0.23