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Table 3 Performance of different POSPOM cutoff values for the prediction of major complication

From: Validation of the PreOperative Score to predict Post-Operative Mortality (POSPOM) in Dutch non-cardiac surgery patients

POSPOM score ≥

Sensitivity

Specificity

NPV

PPV

Number of patients (n)

Major complication (CD grade III-V) (n)

6

100.0

0.0

100.0

6.6

2463

162

8

99.4

0.1

75.0

6.5

2460

161

10

99.4

0.4

90.0

6.6

2454

161

12

98.8

1.3

93.9

6.6

2431

160

14

98.8

2.3

96.4

6.6

2408

160

16

96.9

4.7

95.6

6.7

2350

157

18

95.7

8.6

96.6

6.9

2259

155

20

90.1

21.0

96.8

7.4

1964

146

22

85.8

34.9

97.2

8.5

1638

139

24

74.1

49.2

96.4

9.3

1290

120

26

63.0

62.9

96.0

10.7

956

102

28

45.1

74.2

95.1

11.0

666

73

30

28.4

84.2

94.4

11.2

409

46

32

14.2

92.8

93.9

12.2

188

23

34

7.4

96.7

93.7

13.6

88

12

35

3.1

98.0

93.5

9.6

52

5

36

3.1

98.6

93.5

13.2

38

5

38

1.9

99.5

93.5

20.0

15

3

40

0.6

99.7

93.4

12.5

8

1

42

0.0

100.0

93.4

0.0

1

0

  1. Abbreviations: POSPOM PreOperative Score to predict PostOperative Mortality, NPV negative predictive value, PPV positive predictive value, CD Clavien-Dindo