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Table 4 Summary of study results for women with suspected membrane rupture; women with unknown membrane status upon entry to the study but who had a suspected membrane rupture

From: Meta-analysis of studies on biochemical marker tests for the diagnosis of premature rupture of membranes: comparison of performance indexes

Study

N

TP

FN

TN

FP

Sensitivity% (CI)

Specificity% (CI)

PPV% (CI)

NPV% (CI)

Albayrak 2011 [61]

167

79

9

77

2

89.8 (81 0–94.9)

97.5 (90.3–99.6)

97.5 (90.5–99.6)

89.5 (80.6–94.8)

Tagore 2010 [59]

94

35

5

51

3

87.5 (72.4–95.3)

94.4 (83.7–98.6)

92.1 (77.5–97.9)

91.1 (79.6–96.7)

Martinez de Tejada 2006 [52]

49

19

3

20

7

86.4 (64.0–96.4)

74.1 (53.4–88.1)

73.1 (51.9–87.6)

87.0 (65.3–96.6)

Kubota 1998 [46]

48

18

1

27

2

94.7 (71.9–99.7)

93.1 (75.8–98.8)

90.0 (66.9–98.2)

96.4 (79.8–99.8)

Jain 1998 [49]

100

25

0

67

8

100 (83.4–100)

89.3 (79.5–94.9)

75.8 (57.4–88.3)

100 (93.2–100)

Ragosch 1996 [50]

75

35

0

33

7

100 (87.7–100)

82.5 (66.6–92.1)

83.3 (68.0–92.5)

100 (87.0–100)

Actim® PROM pooled

533

211

18

275

29

92.1 (87.7–95.1)

90.5 (86.4–93.4)

87.9 (82.9–91.6)

93.9 (90.3–96.2)

Birkenmaier 2012 [57]

199

51

3

143

2

94.4 (83.7–98.6)

98.6 (94.6–99.8)

96.2 (85.9–99.3)

97.9 (93.6–99.5)

Albayrak 2011 [61]

167

83

5

77

2

94.3 (86.6–97.9)

97.5 (90.3–99.6)

97.6 (91.0–99.6)

93.9 (85.7–97.7)

Tagore 2010 [59]

100

38

3

59

0

92.7 (79.0–98.1)

100 (92.4–100)

100 (88.6–100)

95.2 (85.6–98.7)

Lee 2007 [56]

183

157

2

21

3

98.7 (95.1–99.8)

87.5 (66.5–96.7)

98.1 (94.2–99.5)

91.3 (70.5–98.5)

Cousins 2005 [55]

203

90

1

112

0

98.9 (93.2–99.9)

100 (95.9–100)

100 (94.9–100)

99.1 (94.4–99.95)

AmniSure® pooled

852

419

14

412

7

96.8 (94.5–98.1)

98.3 (96.4–99.3)

98.4 (96.5–99.3)

96.7 (94.4–98.1)

  1. CI: Confidence Interval; TP: True Positives; FN: False Negatives; TN: True Negatives; FP: False Positives.