Guide to Clinical Preventive Services: Report of the U. S. Preventive Services Task ForceDIANE Publishing, 1997 - 933 pages An exhaustive report on recommended clinical preventive services that should be provided to patients in the course of routine clinical care, including screening for vascular, neoplastic and infectious diseases, and metabolic, hematologic, ophthalmologic and ontologic, prenatal, and musculoskeletal disorders. Also, mental disorders and substance abuse, counseling, and immunization. The majority of deaths below age 65 are preventable. This Guide results from the most comprehensive evaluation and synthesis of preventive interventions to date. |
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... sensitivity and specificity ( Table 2 ) . Sensitivity refers to the proportion of persons with a condition who correctly test " positive " when screened . A test with poor sensitivity will miss cases ( persons with the con- dition ) and ...
... sensitivity and specificity ( Table 2 ) . Sensitivity refers to the proportion of persons with a condition who correctly test " positive " when screened . A test with poor sensitivity will miss cases ( persons with the con- dition ) and ...
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... sensitivity and specificity , the PPV increases and decreases in accordance with the prevalence of the target condition in the screened population . If the tar- get condition is sufficiently rare in the screened population , even tests ...
... sensitivity and specificity , the PPV increases and decreases in accordance with the prevalence of the target condition in the screened population . If the tar- get condition is sufficiently rare in the screened population , even tests ...
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... Sensitivity of test = 90 % Specificity of test = 90 % Cancer Prevalence = 1 % Cancer Prevalence = 0.1 % Cancer Cancer Cancer Cancer Present Absent Present Absent Positive test 900 9,900 Positive test 90 9,990 Negative test 100 89,100 ...
... Sensitivity of test = 90 % Specificity of test = 90 % Cancer Prevalence = 1 % Cancer Prevalence = 0.1 % Cancer Cancer Cancer Cancer Present Absent Present Absent Positive test 900 9,900 Positive test 90 9,990 Negative test 100 89,100 ...
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... sensitivity of 63-76 % and a specificity of 61-76 % for clinically significant stenosis . 19 Persons with cervical bruits can be evaluated further with greater accu- racy by noninvasive study of the carotid arteries . Older techniques ...
... sensitivity of 63-76 % and a specificity of 61-76 % for clinically significant stenosis . 19 Persons with cervical bruits can be evaluated further with greater accu- racy by noninvasive study of the carotid arteries . Older techniques ...
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... sensitivity and positive predictive value of a classic history of claudication were only 54 % and 9 % , respectively , when compared with the results of formal noninvasive testing . The sensitivity of an abnormal posterior tibial pulse ...
... sensitivity and positive predictive value of a classic history of claudication were only 54 % and 9 % , respectively , when compared with the results of formal noninvasive testing . The sensitivity of an abnormal posterior tibial pulse ...
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