Diagnostic accuracy of a dynamically increased red blood cell distribution width in very low birth weight infants with serious bacterial infection

Table 3 Area under receiver operating characteristic curve of RDW

	AUC (95%CI)	P value	Sensitivity%	Specificity	+LR	-LR
RDW at baseline	0.58 (0.51–0.66)	0.023	33.33	82.59	1.91	0.81
△RDW	0.74 (0.67–0.805)	< 0.001	66.67	77.33	2.94	0.43
RDW at baseline+△RDW	0.81 (0.76–0.87)	< 0.001	78.16	72.47	2.84	0.33
P* (AUC)	0.001

AUC, area under curve; CI, confidence interval; +LR, positive likelihood ratio; −LR, negative likelihood ratio; P*(AUC). AUC of ΔRDW compared with AUC of RDW at baseline and △RDW.

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