Sentences with phrase «costs of false positives»

Given these results, the utility of the CBCL as a screening device can only be defended if the benefit of detecting a minority of cases offsets the costs of the screen coupled with the costs of false positives.

Is it possible to decrease the costs of false positives?

Not exact matches

The national cost of false - positive tests and overdiagnosed breast cancer is estimated at $ 4 billion a year, according to a 2015 study in Health Affairs.

Specifically, the task force says the «harms and costs of false - positive results, over diagnosis and overtreatment» outweigh any «significant reductions in the relative risk of death from breast cancer.»

But cost - benefit decisions, even as the price of Tc - 99m rises when supply shrinks, should include the cost of follow - up tests after a false - positive thallium scan, he urges.

It rarely detects important disease and does not reduce mortality and is associated with discomfort for many women, false positive and negative examinations, and extra cost,» said Dr. Linda Humphrey, a co-author of the guideline and a member of ACP's Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee.

Inappropriate testing for heart attacks increases the cost of treatment; increases the number of false positives, which could lead to further testing and unnecessary consultations; and adds to patient anxiety, said Dr. Anil Makam, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern and first author of the study published today in JAMA Internal Medicine.

«Our method would be an effective low - cost addition to a battery of tests helping to lower the false positive rate since it provides 10 % better sensitivity and specificity than any other screening method, including Pap and HPV tests,» says Huang.

«Facets of costs should be incorporated in evaluation, when available, as false negatives might be more costly than false positives, for example.

The cost of testing (and often re-testing because of false positive test results) could possibly hinder the success of a spay and neuter program.

But using this tends to blind decision - makers to the costs of acting on false positives: exaggerated warnings or even false alarms.

In its enthusiasm to adopt innovative statistics - based solutions, the industry may be in danger of undermining the progress made in predictive maintenance to date, by driving an increase in «false positives» that, in turn, will result in increased Opex costs for operators.

Mostly I worry that consumers won't stop to consider the choice of success metrics, let alone question the defaults and the priorities they express.14 As we've found, accuracy isn't always the right metric, and there are real costs associated with false positives.

Only Trend Micro did better overall, zapping all of the zero - days, but at the cost of eight false positives; the industry average was six.