Sentences with phrase «rate of false positive results»

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THE BIOPSY»S DANGEROUS CASCADE: HOW TO LESSEN THE NEED FOR INVASIVE TESTING Intervention Track Hosted By: Insigniam Current medical tests are too often marred by high rates of overdiagnosis («false positive» results) or they too often miss the danger altogether («false negatives»).

Although we do not have results of confirmatory testing, we would expect a similar rate of false positives for our screening.

«Such a high rate of a false positives in this particular study was unexpected,» says Tandy - Connor, who believes that some of the discrepancies in the results can be explained by technical differences between the various testing methods used.

«As we look at lessons learned from this outbreak, the high false - positive screening rate and other delays in diagnosis may have resulted in unprotected exposure of frontline staff.

We evaluate the rates and nature of false positives in the CoRoT exoplanets search and compare our results with semiempirical predictions.

The older group also had a slightly higher rate of false - positive screening results.

This observational result, which uses the achromatic property of planetary transit signals that is not investigated by the Kepler observations, provides an independent indication that Kepler's false positive rate is low.

Clinical examination and imaging technologies are critical elements for detecting and diagnosing breast cancer, yet the high rate of false positives and false negatives resulting from these approaches can significantly impact patient care.

It is clear, however, that evidence of an excess of amino acid substitutions (at least from site - by - site tests) is no longer a sufficiently convincing demonstration of selection, not only because a high ratio could result from selection on synonymous mutations rather than positive selection on proteins [5], but also because there is potentially a high false discovery rate of selected sites [6].

One study on panleukopenia tests indicated that the rate of false - positive results post-vaccination varied depending on which brand of test was used.

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.