By using samples of known disease status, values such as sensitivity and specificity can be calculated that allow you to evaluate just that. An ideal test rarely overlooks the thing you are looking ...

Lower rates of sensitivity will produce more false negative results. The specificity of a test is the percentage of results that will be correctly negative when HIV is not present. Lower rates of ...

A screening tool was effective in identifying abuse among young children with a single bruise in a pediatric emergency ...

while specificity was consistently high (Figure 1). This was partly explained by a 13% higher sensitivity in children than in adults (66.6% [95% CI: 61.6–71.7] vs 53.9% [95% CI: 47.9–59.8 ...

The sensitivity of HPV testing was 94.6%, whereas that of Pap testing was 55.4%. The specificity was 94.1% for HPV testing and 96.8% for Pap smears. Previous concern that HPV testing is less ...

A urinary DNA methylation test demonstrated a high sensitivity for detecting high-grade or invasive bladder cancer, ...

By using samples of known disease status, values such as sensitivity and specificity can be calculated that allow you to evaluate just that. An ideal test rarely overlooks the thing you are looking ...