title: Assessing Diagnostic Tests I: You Can't Be Too Sensitive.
abstract: Clinicians and patients are always interested in less invasive, cheaper, and faster diagnostic tests. When introducing such a test, physicians must ensure that it is reliable in its diagnoses and does not commit errors. In this article, I discuss several ways that new tests are compared against gold standard diagnostics.
authors: Assistant Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX. Electronic address: dajupite@utmb.edu.
authors: Daniel C
authors: DC
authors: Jupiter
mesh_terms: D003955:Diagnostic Tests, Routine; D005188:False Negative Reactions; D005189:False Positive Reactions; D006801:Humans; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity
keywords: diagnostic test; gold standard; negative predictive value; positive predictive value; sensitivity; specificity