Table 3 Pre- and in-hospital assessed injuries and predictive values in the two patient populations.
Group 1: Patients treated by pre-hospital physician (n = 230, 55%) | Group 2: Patients treated by paramedics (n = 190, 45%) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Body region | assessed injury: pre/in-hospital | Positive predictive value | Negative predictive value | assessed injury: pre/in-hospital | Positive predictive value | Negative predictive value | ||
Pre | In | Pre | In | |||||
Thx | 30,0 | 53,0 | 0,90 (0,81-0,95) | 0,63 (0,55-0,70) | 42,1 | 46,3 | 0,73 (0,62-0,81) | 0,73 (0,64-0,80) |
Abd. | 13,0 | 18,7 | 0,43 (0,27-0,61) | 0,85 (0,79-0,89) | 14,2 | 12,6 | 0,26 (0,13-0,45) | 0,90 (0,84-0,93) |
Pelvis | 15,2 | 25,7 | 0,69 (0,52-0,81) | 0,82 (0,76-0,87) | 12,6 | 14,2 | 0,42 (0,25-0,61) | 0,90 (0,84-0,94) |
Head | 64,3 | 67,8 | 0,91 (0,86-0,95) | 0,74 (0,64-0,83) | 48,4 | 51,6 | 0,80 (0,71-0,87) | 0,83 (0,74-0,89) |
Spine | 20,4 | 34,8 | 0,62 (0,47-0,74) | 0,72 (0,62-0,78) | 33,7 | 23,7 | 0,42 (0,31-0,54) | 0,86 (0,79-0,91) |
Extr. | 47,0 | 65,2 | 0,91 (0,84-0,95) | 0,57 (0,49-0,66) | 48,4 | 57,4 | 0,86 (0,77-0,92) | 0,69 (0,60-0,78) |