Volume 10, Number 1—January 2004
Research
Fatal Infectious Disease Surveillance in a Medical Examiner Database1
Mitchell I. Wolfe*
, Kurt B. Nolte*†, and Steven S. Yoon*
, Kurt B. Nolte*†, and Steven S. Yoon*
Table
Sensitivity and predictive value positive (PVP) of algorithm 1 and algorithm 2 applied to the truncated and full-text datasets, compared by manner of death and infection as cause of death
| Truncated dataset | Full-text dataset | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All causes of death | Natural and undetermined causes of death | All causes of death | Natural and undetermined causes of death | ||||||
| ICOD and incidental infectionsa | Sensitivity | PVP | Sensitivity | PVP | Sensitivity | PVP | Sensitivity | PVP | |
| Algorithm 1 | 67% (51/76) 1 | 39% (51/131) 1 | 73% (46/63) 2 | 49% (46/94) 2 | 92% (70/76) 5 | 8% (70/937) 5 | 87% (55/63) 6 | 17% (55/315) 6 | |
| Algorithm 2 | n/a | 93% (71/76) 7 | 20% (71/356) 7 | 94% (58/62) 8 | 30% (58/196) 8 | ||||
| ICOD onlya | |||||||||
| Algorithm 1 | 92% (46/50) 3 | 49% (46/94) 3 | 93% (42/45) 4 | 45% (42/94)4 | 88% (44/50) 9 | 5% (44/937) 9 | 89% (40/45)10 | 13% (40/315)10 | |
| Algorithm 2 | n/a | 90% (45/50) 11 | 13% (45/356) 11 | 91% (41/45) 12 | 21% (41/196) 12 | ||||
aICOD, infectious cause of death.
bNumber in bold in lower right corner of each cell corresponds to results of 2 x 2 table shown in Figure 3.
1 Findings from this study were presented at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, San Francisco, California, October 25–28, 2001.
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