We propose a method to correct estimates from historical linked data for bias arising from type-I error—"false matches." We estimate the rate of false matching from the disagreement rate in ...

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Faulty drug tests given to thousands of California prisoners gave false results for opiates Prison advocates worry that the false positive results ... that the positivity rate for drug screens ...

Risk factors for relapse based on the molecular profiling of Japanese patients with stage II colorectal cancer. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2025 ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium.

The false positive rate has also significantly decreased with technology like computer-aided detection and 3D mammograms.

Women who received a true-negative result were more likely to return for future screenings, with a 77% compliance rate. By comparison, among those who received a false positive, only 61% returned ...

TUESDAY, Sept. 3, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- A significant number of women stop getting regular mammograms after being frightened by a “false positive” scan that incorrectly suggests they have ...

The high rate of women who don't return for future screening is concerning to the research team. "It is important for women with false-positive results to continue screening every one to two years ...

“The root cause analysis committee thinks this is an uncommon case of false positive result, coming from such a chain of unfortunate events,” he added. “The nasogastric tube has gone via the ...