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Table 3 PPV of semiological features based on their listing in written reports

From: Teaching distinguishing semiological features improves diagnostic accuracy of seizure-like events by emergency physicians

  1. An increase in PPV indicates newly acquired knowledge. In contrast, a decreased PPV may indicate that under the given circumstances (only two minutes time to document the seizure) some semiological features were no longer regarded as important as other, newly learned features and therefore not documented. Semiological features with PPV > 0.8 bold printed.