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Table 4 Sensitivity and specificity of DSR in the discrimination of Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment and positive predictive values (PPV) and negative predictive values (NPV) at different base rates

From: The Chinese version of story recall: a useful screening tool for mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease in the elderly

Alzheimer’s disease

PPV/NPV at different base rate

DSR cutoff

Sensitivity

Specificity

10%

20%%

30%

40%

50%

6.50

0.992

0.907

0.54/1.00

0.73/1.00

0.60/1.00

0.64/0.99

0.68/0.99

7.50

0.988

0.907

0.54/1.00

0.73/1.00

0.82/0.99

0.88/0.99

0.91/0.99

9.00

0.988

0.918

0.57/1.00

0.75/1.00

0.84/0.99

0.89/0.99

0.92/0.99

*10.50

0.980

0.938

0.63/1.00

0.80/1.00

0.87/0.99

0.91/0.98

0.94/0.98

11.50

0.972

0.938

0.63/1.00

0.80/1.00

0.87/0.99

0.91/0.98

0.94/0.97

12.50

0.952

0.959

0.72/1.00

0.85/0.99

0.91/0.98

0.94/0.97

0.96/0.95

14.00

0.923

0.969

0.77’0.99

0.88/0.98

0.93/0.97

0.95/0.95

0.97/0.93

Mild cognitive impairment

PPV/NPV at different base rate

DSR cutoff

Sensitivity

Specificity

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

12.50

0.952

0.739

0.29/0.99

0.48/0.98

0.60/0.97

0.71/0.96

0.78/0.94

14.00

0.923

0.761

0.30/0.99

0.49/0.98

0.62/0.96

0.72/0.94

0.79/0.91

*15.50

0.899

0.799

0.33/0.99

0.53/0.97

0.66/0.95

0.75/0.92

0.82/0.89

16.50

0.879

0.821

0.35/0.98

0.55/0.96

0.68/0.94

0.77/0.91

0.83/0.87

17.50

0.855

0.821

0.35/0.98

0.54/0.96

0.67/0.93

0.76/0.89

0.83/0.85

18.50

0.819

0.836

0.36/0.98

0.56/0.95

0.68/0.92

0.77/0.87

0.83/0.82

19.50

0.782

0.843

0.36/0.97

0.55/0.94

068/0.90

0.77/0.85

0.83/0.79

  1. Note: *indicates the cutoff with optimal sensitivity and specificity.