Risk Factors for Severe Respiratory Syncytial Virus Lower Respiratory Tract Infection

Table 7.: European Risk Factor Scoring Models and their Diagnostic Values

	Reference	N	Sensitivity	Specificity	PPV %	NPV %	LR	Diagnostic Accuracy %
FLIP 15 variable model‍	59	550	0.71	0.72	56	83	2.56	72
FLIP Final 8 variable model	59	489	0.75	0.72	58	84	2.66	73
Munich 7 variable model	59	370	0.88	0.72	13	99	3.17	73
French 7 variable model	61	231	0.51	0.68	44	73	1.59	63
French 8 variable model including ‘pets at home’	61	231	0.69	0.63	48	80	1.86	65
French 8 variable model including ‘day care outside the home’	61	231	0.60	0.64	46	76	1.67	63
French 8 variable model including ‘number of smokers’	61	231	0.53	0.64	42	73	1.46	60
Italian 6 variable model	62	56	0.83	0.70	75	79	2.79	77
Danish 7 Variable Model	60	2529						66

PPV = positive predictive valueNPV = negative predictive valueLR = likelihood ratio of a positive testNumber of children at school was used in place of number of siblings over two years old.