IBHRE国际心律失常考官委员会英文资料：Research Methodology Interpretation.pptVIP

XVI. Research Methodology Interpretation (1%, 2 Questions) Sensitivity Specificity Sensitivity – True (+) ive to the proportion of people with the (+) ive test True (-) ive to the proportion of people with the (-) ive test A highly sensitive test reveals most of the “true positives” and has few “false negative” Specificity – the proportion of the people without a disease who test (-) ive for that disease on a given test = true (-) ive A test has a high specificity i.e., 90% reveals 90 out of 100 normal people and false (+) ive would be the other 10 out of 100 people