Sentences with phrase «of false negatives»

However, the use of other cut - offs may be justified to reduce the rate of false negatives in routine care [41].

However, it is not a very sensitive means of heartworm detection in the cat (i.e., there is a high chance of false negative test results).

And while a tougher standard would reduce false positives, it would surely also increase the number of false negatives — that is, finding no effect when there really was one.

Are there any proven cases of false negative in this test?

Is it possible to increase the costs of false negatives?

That race proved to me that anything was achievable once you let go of false negative beliefs.

If the consequences of false positives are much more severe than the consequences of false negatives, then allowing for more false negatives might make sense.

We also need a better understanding of how to reduce the consequences for students of false negatives.

Such clarifying documents as cancelled checks or credit card statements reflecting that an item was in fact paid go a long way towards speeding up the removal of false negatives on your credit file.

Another way to decrease the rate of false negatives is to skip the fingerprint unlock altogether.

The high number of false negative results found in the study implies a risk that athletes who use rHuEpo will avoid detection and damage the fundamental goal of fair competition.

Improved measurement of phenotypes and carefully controlled genotype determination can reduce the danger of false negative findings [118].

As with all technical indicators, an overbought or oversold indicator may be followed by higher highs or lower lows, giving the impression of a false negative or false positive.

The problems of false negatives (i.e. the sensor alert not going off when the athlete is later found to have suffered a concussion), and false positives (i.e. the sensor triggering an alert when the athlete is later found not to have suffered a concussion) are real concerns.

Secondly, given that much of this centres on antenatal genetic testing, the notion of holding a doctor responsible for single instances of false negatives violates basic statistical...

«Preventing these two main causes of false negatives requires a combination of suitable tracer particles, the right analytical method, and optimized parameters,» Kraus says.

[14] Thus the tradeoff associated with the reduction of false negatives is that false positive error increased from 56 percent to about 70 percent.

OFA's published reliability figures have been erroneously high; the percentages of false negatives as well as false positives were not valid, and one can extrapolate those inaccurate results to apply to SV, FCI, and any other old - style v - d - position registries.

And most importantly, avoid the (increasingly great) chance of a FALSE NEGATIVE SCENARIO in which we do nothing to mitigate GW when it really is happening — which is a very dire scenario, opposite the happy scenario of mitigating GW when it is not happening.

Those concerns are potential source of false negatives.

He might ask for an HPV DNA test to be performed on an oral swab, but I don't believe those are FDA - approved for diagnosing oral HPV infections, and there is also the possibility of false negatives.

This lower rate of false negative results is a key benefit of the HPV screening.

Veterinarians often repeat the test because the risk of false negatives, because worms and worm eggs move around alot and because worm eggs often live in the envirnoment for years.

Now, from the authorizer's viewpoint, what's the cost of false negatives — not approving promising proposals?

Health authorities say the number of false negative results from the tests is probably small but AIDS hotlines were jammed last week with inquiries from people worried by the implications.

With increased throughput, the ability to identify multiple key allergens at once from a number of different food types, and advanced peptide signature detection, SCIEX report a greatly reduced chance of both false negative and false positive results.

You can have some false positives, but what you don't want is a lot of false negatives.»

«The rate of false negatives was slightly higher in comparison, but this can be explained by the settings used to minimize background noise.

Antibody tests can be specific but they have high rates of false negatives (you can have the infection without antibodies) and false positives (you may have cleared the infection but the antibodies are still around).

Therefore, patients have a lot of false negatives, and physicians don't believe that the Lyme is there, when, in reality, it is.