When developing diagnostic tests or evaluating results, it is important to understand how reliable those tests and therefore the results you are obtaining are. By using samples of known disease status ...

An ideal test rarely overlooks the thing you are looking for (i.e., it is sensitive) and rarely mistakes it for something else (i.e. it is specific). Therefore, when evaluating diagnostic tests, it is ...

Generally, however, a trade-off must be made between sensitivity and specificity. ... sensitivity of 15-67% has been reported at a specificity of >90% (Table 4).

Sensitivity and Specificity of the Next-Generation Multitarget Stool DNA Test and the Commercial FIT.* * ... (Table S14). In these analyses, sensitivity for colorectal cancer was 93.7% (95% CI, ...

Table 3 Sensitivity and specificity by the detection method according to histological type, smoking status and rank of screening; (a) low-dose CT group and (b) chest X-ray group.

Youden's J-value was calculated from the calculated sensitivity and specificity of each test ( Table 2). ... (93.7 and 100%, respectively), but had low specificity ( Table 4).

Now, 100% sensitivity and 95% specificity have a very different meaning. In a group of 100,000 patients, the algorithm would detect the rare tumors in only 5,000 scans.

Table 2 shows sensitivity, specificity, PPV and NPV for the FFQ compared to overall use of any as well as of specific dietary supplements (multivitamins, vitamin C, E, ...

Sensitivity is the probability that a given test will detect the condition, if it’s there. For at-home COVID-19 tests, the sensitivity has been reported to be between 79% and 95%.