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INHALATION TOXICOLOGY
卷 26, 期 13, 页码 811-828出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.3109/08958378.2014.955932
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Benefits and limitations; positive and negative predicted value; prevalence; screening tests; sensitivity; specificity
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Screening tests are widely used in medicine to assess the likelihood that members of a defined population have a particular disease. This article presents an overview of such tests including the definitions of key technical (sensitivity and specificity) and population characteristics necessary to assess the benefits and limitations of such tests. Several examples are used to illustrate calculations, including the characteristics of low dose computed tomography as a lung cancer screen, choice of an optimal PSA cutoff and selection of the population to undergo mammography. The importance of careful consideration of the consequences of both false positives and negatives is highlighted. Receiver operating characteristic curves are explained as is the need to carefully select the population group to be tested.
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