Question 28 (part 2) · LEK · Predictive values
If a diagnostic test is performed, the percentage of individulas actually healthy among all individulas for whom the diagnostic test yielded a negative result (among all individulas diagnosed as healthy by the diagnostic test) is the test’s:
- A. specificity.
- B. sensitivity.
- C. positive predictive value.
- D. negative predictive value.
- E. true prevalence of the disease.
Hint
The denominator here is everyone with a negative test result, not everyone who is truly healthy.
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