Algorithm version | Criteria used in the algorithm version* | Measures of accordance (%): Median resulting from 10 test-samples | |||
Sensitivity | Specificity | Negative predictive value | Positive predictive value | ||
(A) | Cr1, Cr2 | 97.5 | 93.0 | 99.7 | 62.9 |
(B) | Cr1–Cr3 | 94.3 | 95.5 | 99.3 | 72.4 |
(C) | Cr1–Cr4 | 94.1 | 95.5 | 99.3 | 72.5 |
(D) | Cr1–Cr5 | 89.9 | 97.6 | 98.8 | 82.2 |
(E) | Cr1–Cr4, Cr6 | 91.3 | 97.4 | 98.9 | 81.7 |
(F) | Cr1–Cr4, Cr6–Cr8 | 66.2 | 98.4 | 96.0 | 83.8 |
Female residents of North Rhine Westphalia included in the German Pharmacoepidemiological Research Database who died between 2006 and 2013.
*For more details see figure 1 and online supplementary data 2.