In the appropriate clinical setting, suspicion for acute aortic dissection should be raised when patients present with findings that have a high specificity and high
positive likelihood ratio (hypotension, pulse deficit,...
Likelihood ratio for a positive test result: the likelihood that a positive test comes from a person with the disorder rather than one without the disorder = sensitivity / (1 — spe
Likelihood ratio for a
positive test result: the
likelihood that a positive test comes from a person with the disorder rather than one without the disorder = sensitivity / (1 — spe
likelihood that a
positive test comes from a person with the disorder rather than one without the disorder = sensitivity / (1 — specificity).