Appendix Table 8.

Risk Group Statistics for the Models Built Using the Clinician Data

Derivation groupValidation group
Flu/Total (%)LRIn Group (%)Flu/Total (%)LRIn Group (%)
Conditional inference tree (manual)
 Low9/58 (15.5)0.233.38/24 (33.3)0.531.6
 Moderate32/58 (55.2)1.233.314/26 (53.8)1.134.2
 High47/58 (81.0)4.233.317/26 (65.4)1.834.2
Naive Bayes classifier
 Low5/42 (11.9)0.124.11/13 (7.7)0.117.1
 Moderate8/15 (53.3)1.18.64/8 (50.0)0.910.5
 High75/117 (64.1)1.767.234/55 (61.8)1.572.4
LASSO score
 Low7/58 (12.1)0.133.38/24 (33.3)0.531.6
 Moderate12/28 (42.9)0.716.12/11 (18.2)0.214.5
 High69/88 (78.4)3.550.629/41 (70.7)2.353.9
  • Abbreviations: LASSO, Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator; LR, Stratum-specific likelihood ratio.

  • Notes: We assigned risk groups using a 25% testing threshold and a 60% treatment threshold.