Figure 1
From: Identifying incident oral and pharyngeal cancer cases using Medicare claims
Histograms of the scores based on Medicare claims source and their combined total*. *Oral and pharyngeal (OP) cancer case (magenta) and control (blue) scores; vertical reference bars for: the initial cut-point score (>0 indicating the algorithm identifying as an OP cancer case) that had a sensitivity of 93.9% and specificity of 96.2%, the minimal Euclidean distance cut-point (>5.48) that had a sensitivity of 93.8% and specificity of 97.1%, and for the cut-point that maximized specificity (>37.43) that had 75.0% sensitivity and 99.3% specificity.