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Comment
. 2014 Dec;32(12):1534-5.
doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2014.09.016. Epub 2014 Sep 19.

In reply to: "Validating an HIV risk score"

Yu-Hsiang Hsieh  1 , Richard E Rothman  2 , Jason S Haukoos  3
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In reply to: "Validating an HIV risk score"

Yu-Hsiang Hsieh et al. Am J Emerg Med. 2014 Dec.
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Figure 1
Expected (predicted) versus observed prevalence (%) of newly-diagnosed HIV infection using an abbreviated version of Denver HIV Risk Score.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Discrimination of an abbreviated version of the Denver HIV Risk Score (DHRS) to identify patients with newly-diagnosed HIV infection. Points on the curve represent specific DHRS values, as labeled. The area under the curve was 0.75 (95% confidence interval: 0.71 – 0.79).
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