Mostly About Screening

Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller and Jordan Smoller
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Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology
Jordan Smoller: Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Psychiatry and Center for Human Genetic Research

Chapter Chapter 5 in Biostatistics and Epidemiology, 2015, pp 133-142 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The issue in the use of screening or diagnostic tests is to strike the proper trade-off between the desire to detect the disease in people who really have it and the desire to avoid thinking you have detected it in people who really don’t have it.

Keywords: Positive Test Means; Nonhypertensive Individuals; Female Blood Donors; Stringent Cut-off Point; Mass Screening Test (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2134-8_5

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