TY - JOUR T1 - Infection Probability Score shows 59.4% specificity and 74.3% sensitivity for predicting infection in haematology–oncology patients JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs SP - 54 LP - 54 DO - 10.1136/ebn1125 VL - 14 IS - 2 AU - Gonzalo Bearman Y1 - 2011/04/01 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/14/2/54.abstract N2 - Commentary on: Apostolopolou E, Raftopoulos V, Terzis K, et al. Infection probability score, APACHE II and KARNOFSKY scoring systems as predictors of infection onset in haematology-oncology patients. J Clin Nurs 2010;19:1560–8.OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedWeb of Science Apostolpolou and colleagues assessed the predictive power of three systems: Infection Probability Score (IPS), Apache II and Karnovsky score for the onset of healthcare-associated infection in haematology–oncology patients. The sample consisted of 102 hospitalised patients, 32 of whom developed a healthcare-associated infection, the most frequent of which was a bloodstream infection (n=17). At a cut-off value of 10, the IPS demonstrated a healthcare-associated infection prediction sensitivity of 59.4% and a specificity of 74.3%, surpassing that of the APACHE II and Karnofsky scoring system.Peres Bota1 initially … ER -