Sentences with phrase «false positives leads»

But reducing the risk of false positives leads to more false negatives, and vice versa.

Oh, I suppose the risk of false positives leading to anxiety / more invasive procedures.)

Not exact matches

Some believe that false positives can lead to unnecessary further testing or treatment — adding to the strain on health care resources and putting some men through unnecessary and painful procedures.

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There is some evidence that the use of continuous electronic fetal monitoring may lead to increased false positives for fetal hypoxemia and to resulting caesarean sections.21, 22

Because ovarian cancer is relatively rare, occurring in approximately one out of every 2,500 women, a test with only 99 percent specificity would result in false - positive diagnoses for 25 women, leading to unnecessary and risky surgeries and procedures.

Dr. Catalona, who was the first physician in the U.S. to run the phi test, added, «However, the problem is that higher levels of PSA can also be caused by a benign enlargement or inflammation of the prostate, leading to many false ‐ positives for cancer and ultimately unnecessarily invasive biopsies and an increased potential for patient harm.»

First, it provides a strong argument against the opinion that subgroup analyses of randomised trials should be strongly discouraged because they can lead to false positive findings due to the multiple comparison problem.

False positive and negative results and over-diagnosis could cause psychological distress, delay treatment, or lead to overtreatment, according to the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

Though the optimal scenario is actually estimated to catch fewer lung cancers than the criteria used in the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) in the US, the authors predict this more stringent scenario would require fewer CT scans, and lead to fewer false positive screens and lung cancer overdiagnosis, which can lead to patient harm.

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.

But that effort at least showed that global searches do not necessarily lead to many false positives, as some physicists feared.

The disease is notoriously difficult to diagnose, leading to a large proportion of both false positives — where patients undergo surgery they don't need — as well as false negatives — where appendicitis is mistaken for gas or cramps and left untreated.

To eliminate false - positive results caused by seed effects — a phenomenon by which siRNAs inadvertently silence irrelevant genes — study co-first author Aviad Tsherniak led the development of a novel computational tool dubbed DEMETER.

«This can include false positives for rare diseases that can cause the patient and their family anxiety, and lead to unnecessary liver biopsies.»

At the same time, there are a high number of false positives associated with screening programmes, meaning healthy people are inappropriately identified as having a potential condition, leading to overdiagnosis and overtreatment.

False positive USV detection can lead to a changed sound pattern.

«Our finding that breast cancer risk remains elevated up to 10 years after the false - positive result suggests that the radiologist observed suspicious findings on mammograms that are a marker of future cancer risk,» said the study's lead author, Louise M. Henderson, PhD, a UNC Lineberger member and an assistant professor of radiology at the UNC School of Medicine.

These «false positive» results can cause anxiety and lead to unnecessary follow - up tests.

«I have to think that something like this could potentially lead to more false positives as well.»

There is a risk of false positive, which leads to another, longer test.

These «false positives» aren't just financial and emotional strains, they may also lead to many unnecessary and invasive biopsies.

But I imagine that they test for the 100 ng which could lead to a false positive according to your article.

However, increasing numbers of false - positive tests have led to unnecessary medical treatment.

These false - positive tests can lead to unnecessary major surgery to remove one or both ovaries, the panel members said.

Learning to recognize the Flawed herpes testing leads to many false positives — and needless suffering

Confusing early indicators with demonstrated effectiveness leads to what I would describe as a «false positive.»

As with any measure, value - added can lead to two kinds of misclassification: putting a teacher in a group to which he does not truly belong — a false positive — or failing to put him in a category in which he does belong — a false negative.

Schochet and Chaing (2010), for instance, use simulations to assess the potential that value - added estimates would lead to false positives and false negatives, and how the magnitude of error varies based on the quantity of prior information available.

The last problem with over testing is that it leads to what are called «false positives.»

In addition, many non-pancreatic conditions are associated with a significant increase in serum lipase activity, leading to false - positive results.

In healthy, low - risk populations FIV is quite uncommon, and this leads to an increase in the relative number of false positive results.

Also, the following are not recommended by most experts: FIV vaccine (dubious efficacy, leads to false - positive FIV tests), ringworm vaccine, FIP (feline infectious peritonitis) vaccine, Bordetella vaccine, Giardia vaccine.

League of Legends launched a new system to hand out immediate automatic bans for chat infractions this week, leading to many claims of unfair bans and false positives.

False positives and false negatives quickly overpower our intuition, leading to overconfidence in our resFalse positives and false negatives quickly overpower our intuition, leading to overconfidence in our resfalse negatives quickly overpower our intuition, leading to overconfidence in our results.

So, if it were a problem, it would lead to a false positive.

Since the possibility space for the existence of major problems is large, calculating probabilities or possibilities of each is sure to lead to false positives.

Pull quote: «Loose scientific methods are leading to a massive false positive bias in the literature.»

It is more surprising that the Superintendent of Motor Vehicles in BC actually relies upon these such tests to prohibit innocent people from driving (leading to other severe financial or life - changing repercussion) in situations where the breath testing equipment might be in fact reading false positives.

In our experience, using e-discovery software that does not properly tokenize CJK characters to find responsive documents not only can miss key documents but also result in up to 50 percent false - positive identification, which leads to excessive review costs.

Vancouver Criminal Defense Lawyer Emmet J. Duncan persuaded Crown that the police officer made NUMEROUS errors including: FAILING to observe an adequate waiting period before administering the «roadside screening device» (or «ASD»); failing to respect Client's right to consult with COUNSEL OF CHOICE; and improperly observing Client before the breath samples to protect her from having MOUTH ALCOHOL lead to a false positive result on the BAC Datamaster C (the Breathalyzer) instrument.

The false positive rate is low, between 1 and 10 percent of all positive results, but unfortunately, such a result can lead to more invasive treatment that might in reality be unnecessary.

While it is true that Pap testing can lead to false positives or false negatives, the issue of its accuracy is a little more nuanced.

A lack of blinding, however, should increase the difference between intervention and control groups, leading to false positive rather than null results.

It has been argued that standards for diagnosing ADHD should be lower in adults than children, requiring 4 of 9 instead of 6 of 9 clinical criteria.8 In this study, applying the 4 of 9 standard increases ADHD in probands by nearly half, from 22.2 % to 31.9 %, and more than doubles the rate in comparison participants (from 5.1 % to 11.8 %), possibly leading to false - positive diagnoses.

Additionally, TransUnion can find more records that potentially match an applicant by supplementing the applicant's own information with data from TransUnion's databases, leading to more accurate results and fewer false positive matches.