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Potential consequences of alternative prescriptive strategies |
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| Strategy |
Number not developing late anemia (n = 4,136) |
Number developing late anemia (n = 1,034) |
Predictive strength |
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| Not treated |
Treated |
Not treated |
Treated |
Sensitivity |
Specificity |
PPV |
NPV |
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|
|
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| Corwina |
2,666 |
1,470 |
234 |
800 |
0.77 |
0.65 |
0.35 |
0.92 |
| Broad-basedb |
0 |
4,136 |
0 |
1,034 |
1.00 |
0 |
0.20 |
Undefined |
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Late anemia, reached or would have reached 7.0 g/dl at 7 days or more after admission to intensive care unit. NPV, negative predictive value; PPV, positive predictive value. aPatients were treated on the basis of clinical trial inclusion criteria in reference [5]. bStrategy in which all patients are treated. | ||||||||
Milbrandt et al. Critical Care 2006 10:R39 doi:10.1186/cc4847 |
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