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New RLO: Sensitivity and Specificity

Another RLO, from the Evidence-Based Practice series of learning objects, explaining how diagnostic test accuracy is described by the terms sensitivity and specificity. Sensitivity describes the accuracy of the test in detecting disease. Specificity describes the accuracy of the test in detecting health. The author is Elaine Bentley, of the University of Nottingham's Graduate Entry Medical School.

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The article was viewable from Friday, 2nd February 2007.

Author: Michael Taylor