Understanding receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves Journal Articles

abstract

• In this issue of the Journal, Auer and colleagues conclude that serum levels of neuron-specific enolase (NSE), a biochemical marker of ischemic brain injury, may have clinical utility for the prediction of survival to hospital discharge in patients experiencing the return of spontaneous circulation following at least 5 minutes of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The authors used a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve to illustrate and evaluate the diagnostic (prognostic) performance of NSE. We explain ROC curve analysis in the following paragraphs.

authors

• Fan, Jerome
• Upadhye, Suneel
• Worster, Andrew

status

• published 

publication date

• January 2006

has subject area

• 1103 Clinical Sciences (FoR)
• Area Under Curve (MeSH)
• Biomarkers (MeSH)
• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (MeSH)
• Emergency & Critical Care Medicine (Science Metrix)
• Heart Arrest (MeSH)
• Humans (MeSH)
• Patient Discharge (MeSH)
• Phosphopyruvate Hydratase (MeSH)
• ROC Curve (MeSH)
• Sensitivity and Specificity (MeSH)

published in

• Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine  Journal

keywords

• Area Under Curve
• Biomarkers
• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
• Heart Arrest
• Humans
• Patient Discharge
• Phosphopyruvate Hydratase
• ROC Curve
• Sensitivity and Specificity

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1017/s1481803500013336

PubMed ID

• 17175625

start page

• 19

end page

• 20

volume

• 8

issue

• 01