Table 3

Event-time-to-troponin and MACE, threshold with AUC, 95% CI, negative and positive predictive values (NPV and PPV) of the original HEART Score versus the preHEART Score of the index cohort and DeLong test for significance difference of non-parametric ROC curves. n=1208

ETTT/%HEARTpreHEARTHEART versus preHEART
MACE NPVMACE PPVROC95% CIMACE NPVMACE PPVROC95% CIP value
0 hours/10098.5%35.4%0.810.78 to 0.8399.3%49.4%0.850.82 to 0.890.01
1 hour/78.098.1%32.8%0.800.75 to 0.8599.0%49.2%0.850.81 to 0.890.07
2 hours/59.698.1%33.0%0.820.77 to 0.8899.2%51.0%0.860.82 to 0.910.35
3 hours/50.697.7%31.1%0.810.75 to 0.8899.0%54.8%0.860.81 to 0.910.15
4 hours/43.398.2%32.4%0.820.75 to 0.8898.9%51.4%0.860.81 to 0.920.32
5 hours/40.098.0%30.3%0.810.74 to 0.8998.7%50.0%0.860.79 to 0.920.66
  • AUC, area under the ROC curves; ETTT, event time to troponine; HEART, history, ECG, age, risk factors and troponin; MACE, major adverse cardiac event; NPV, negative predictive value; PPV, positive predictive value; preHEART, prehospital HEART; ROC, receiver operating characteristic.