Which ONE of the following statements about the sensitivity of a diagnostic test is INCORRECT? A. Given

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Which ONE of the following statements about the sensitivity of a diagnostic test is INCORRECT?

A. Given the patient has the disease, sensitivity is the proportion of times the test is positive.

B. Sensitivity is the proportion of positives (patients with a true positive diagnosis of disease) that are correctly identified by the new test.
C. Sensitivity is the probability that someone with disease has a positive test result.
D. Sensitivity is one minus the proportion of false negatives (test is negative when patient has the disease).
E. Sensitivity is the probability that someone has the disease when the test is positive.

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Medical Statistics A Textbook For The Health Sciences

ISBN: 9781119423645

5th Edition

Authors: Stephen J. Walters, Michael J. Campbell, David Machin

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