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Table 3 Screening Characteristics of the Number of Discharge Medications Versus Risk Score

From: The number of discharge medications predicts thirty-day hospital readmission: a cohort study

Characteristic

Sensitivity

Specificity

PPV

NPV

Accuracy

Number of Discharge Medications >6

53.8

57.5

25.0

82.5

56.7

Risk Score > 0

83.4

65.4

25.1

93.8

69.1

  1. Abbreviations: PPV positive predictive value; NPV negative predictive value