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Table 7 Receiver operating characteristics

From: DUNDRUM-2: Prospective validation of a structured professional judgment instrument assessing priority for admission from the waiting list for a forensic mental health hospital

 

Area under the curve (AUC)

S.E.

95% confidence interval

Scores by location at time accepted onto waiting list

DUNDRUM-1 triage urgency score

0.788

0.058

0.674

0.901

DUNDRUM-2 triage security score

0.755

0.063

0.632

0.879

Combined D-1 and D-2

0.792

0.057

0.679

0.904

scores by location at time when removed from waiting list, whether by admission or not

DUNDRUM-1 triage urgency score

0.912

0.038

0.838

0.986

DUNDRUM-2 triage security score

0.789

0.059

0.673

0.905

Combined D-1 and D-2

0.869

0.044

0.782

0.955

  1. All areas under the curve (AUC) significantly greater than 0.5 at p < 0.001 where the null hypothesis is that the area under the curve is 0.5.