High Diagnostic Accuracy of Long-Term Electrocardiogram Interpretation by General Practitioners

Table 2

Diagnostic utilities for detection of arrhythmias (all defined types) versus no arrhythmias of long-term ECG recordings by the automatic algorithm system and by general practitioners.

	Sensitivity		Specificity		Positive predictive value		Negative predictive value		Accuracy
	Value	95% CI	Value	95% CI	Value	95% CI	Value	95% CI	Value	95% CI
Interpretation by the automatic algorithm system	100%	54-100%	75%	19-99%	86%	42-100%	100%	29-100%	90%	56-100%
Interpretation by general practitioners (GPs)	98%	95-99%	75%	68-82%	85%	81-89%	96%	91-99%	89%	85-92%

Atrial fibrillation/flutter, ventricular tachycardia, and supraventricular tachycardia.