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Social & Preventive Medicine Screening for Disease e72f9d62

Specificity of a screening test measures -

A
True positives
B
False positives
C
False negatives
D
True negatives
High-Yield Explanation
Ans. is 'd' i.e. True negatives Repeat from May 06Sensitivity 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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