Table 3

Sensitivity, specificity, predicted proportion of women who received antibiotics and the predicted proportion of women who would return to the practices due to treatment failure

Risk score cut-off point*Sensitivity, %, (95% CI)Specificity, %, (95% CI)Antibiotics prescribed, %, (95% CI)Returning patients, %, (95% CI)
>0.21100.0 (94.6 to 100.0)5.1 (1.4 to 12.6)97.2 (93.0 to 99.2)
>0.3098.5 (91.8 to 100.0)16.7 (9.2 to 26.8)90.3 (84.2 to 94.6)0.7 (0.0 to 3.8)
>0.3975.8 (63.6 to 85.5)42.9 (31.6 to 54.6)65.3 (56.9 to 73.0)11.1 (6.5 to 17.4)
>0.4575.8 (63.6 to 85.5)43.6 (32.4 to 55.3)65.3 (56.9 to 73.0)11.1 (6.5 to 17.4)
>0.4853.0 (40.3 to 65.4)64.1 (52.4 to 74.7)43.8 (35.5 to 52.3)21.5 (15.1 to 29.1)
>0.5728.8 (18.3 to 41.3)83.3 (73.2 to 90.8)22.2 (15.7 to 29.9)32.6 (25.1 to 40.9)
>0.6515.2 (7.5 to 26.1)91.0 (82.4 to 96.3)11.8 (7.0 to 18.2)38.9 (30.9 to 47.4)
  • Estimates are given with 95% CIs at different cut-off points.

  • *Based on the sum of the logistic regression coefficients for each predictor.