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Social & Preventive Medicine Screening for Disease 8207633f

Specificity of a screening test is the ability of a test to detect:

A
True positives
B
False positives
C
False negatives
D
True negatives
High-Yield Explanation
Ans. is 'd' i.e. True negatives Sensitivity is the ability of test to identify correctly all those who have the disease, i.e. 'true positives'.Specificity is the ability of a test to identify correctly those who do not have the disease, i.e. 'true negatives'.

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