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Social & Preventive Medicine Screening for Disease c557186a

Formula to calculate sensitivity of a screening test -

A
True positive/true positive + false negative
B
True negative/true positive + false negative
C
True positive/true negative - false positive
D
True negative/true negative + false positive
High-Yield Explanation
Ans. is 'a' i.e,, True positive/true positive + false negative Number of true positiveSensitivity = --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Number of true positives + Number of false negative.N umber of true negativesSpecificity = ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Number of true negative + number of false positives.

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