Sensitivity and Specificity

"Sensitivity and Specificity" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Binary classification measures to assess test results. Sensitivity or recall rate is the proportion of true positives. Specificity is the probability of correctly determining the absence of a condition. (From Last, Dictionary of Epidemiology, 2d ed)

Descriptor ID	D012680
MeSH Number(s)	E05.318.740.872 E05.318.780.800 G17.800 N05.715.360.750.725 N05.715.360.780.700 N06.850.520.445.800 N06.850.520.830.872
Concept/Terms	Sensitivity and Specificity Sensitivity and Specificity Specificity and Sensitivity Sensitivity Sensitivity Specificity Specificity

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Sensitivity and Specificity".

Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment [E]
Investigative Techniques [E05]
Epidemiologic Methods [E05.318]
Statistics as Topic [E05.318.740]
Sensitivity and Specificity [E05.318.740.872]
Epidemiologic Research Design [E05.318.780]
Sensitivity and Specificity [E05.318.780.800]
Biological Sciences [G]
Mathematical Concepts [G17]
Sensitivity and Specificity [G17.800]
Health Care [N]
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation [N05]
Quality of Health Care [N05.715]
Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms [N05.715.360]
Statistics as Topic [N05.715.360.750]
Sensitivity and Specificity [N05.715.360.750.725]
Epidemiologic Research Design [N05.715.360.780]
Sensitivity and Specificity [N05.715.360.780.700]
Environment and Public Health [N06]
Public Health [N06.850]
Epidemiologic Methods [N06.850.520]
Epidemiologic Research Design [N06.850.520.445]
Sensitivity and Specificity [N06.850.520.445.800]
Statistics as Topic [N06.850.520.830]
Sensitivity and Specificity [N06.850.520.830.872]

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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Sensitivity and Specificity".

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Bar chart showing 415 publications over 29 distinct years, with a maximum of 40 publications in 2008

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Year	Minor Topic	Total
1991	1	1
1993	5	5
1994	5	5
1995	2	2
1996	5	5
1997	7	7
1998	3	3
1999	6	6
2000	10	10
2001	17	17
2002	27	27
2003	10	10
2004	20	20
2005	30	30
2006	16	16
2007	20	20
2008	40	40
2009	20	20
2010	17	17
2011	21	21
2012	16	16
2013	22	22
2014	19	19
2015	15	15
2016	16	16
2017	15	15
2018	15	15
2019	9	9
2020	6	6

Below are the most recent publications written about "Sensitivity and Specificity" by people in Profiles.

Mitchell SL, Ventura SE. Evaluation and Comparison of the Hologic Aptima SARS-CoV-2 Assay and the CDC 2019-nCoV Real-Time Reverse Transcription-PCR Diagnostic Panel Using a Four-Sample Pooling Approach. J Clin Microbiol. 2020 11 18; 58(12).

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Illán-Gala I, Lleo A, Karydas A, Staffaroni AM, Zetterberg H, Sivasankaran R, Grinberg LT, Spina S, Kramer JH, Ramos EM, Coppola G, La Joie R, Rabinovici GD, Perry DC, Gorno-Tempini ML, Seeley WW, Miller BL, Rosen HJ, Blennow K, Boxer AL, Rojas JC. Plasma Tau and Neurofilament Light in Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration and Alzheimer Disease. Neurology. 2021 02 02; 96(5):e671-e683.

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Paliwal M, Weber KA, Hopkins BS, Cantrell DR, Hoggarth MA, Elliott JM, Dahdaleh NS, Mackey S, Parrish TD, Dhaher Y, Smith ZA. Magnetization Transfer Ratio and Morphometrics of the Spinal Cord Associates with Surgical Recovery in Patients with Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy. World Neurosurg. 2020 12; 144:e939-e947.

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Vespa PM, Olson DM, John S, Hobbs KS, Gururangan K, Nie K, Desai MJ, Markert M, Parvizi J, Bleck TP, Hirsch LJ, Westover MB. Evaluating the Clinical Impact of Rapid Response Electroencephalography: The DECIDE Multicenter Prospective Observational Clinical Study. Crit Care Med. 2020 09; 48(9):1249-1257.

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Mitchell SL, George KS. Evaluation of the COVID19 ID NOW EUA assay. J Clin Virol. 2020 07; 128:104429.

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Johnson BP, Scull EM, Dimas DA, Bavineni T, Bandari C, Batchev AL, Gardner ED, Nimmo SL, Singh S. Acceptor substrate determines donor specificity of an aromatic prenyltransferase: expanding the biocatalytic potential of NphB. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol. 2020 May; 104(10):4383-4395.

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Frickenstein AN, Jones MA, Behkam B, McNally LR. Imaging Inflammation and Infection in the Gastrointestinal Tract. Int J Mol Sci. 2019 Dec 30; 21(1).

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Molina JC, Chaudry F, Menezes V, Ferraro P, Lafontaine E, Martin J, Nasir B, Liberman M. Transvascular endosonographic-guided needle biopsy of intrathoracic lesions. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2020 05; 159(5):2057-2065.

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Buonocore DJ, Fowle E, Lin O, Xu B, Katabi N, Cohen JM. Cytologic evaluation of p16 staining in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma in CytoLyt versus formalin-fixed material. Cancer Cytopathol. 2019 12; 127(12):750-756.

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King JB, Carter AC, Dai W, Lee JW, Kil YS, Du L, Helff SK, Cai S, Huddle BC, Cichewicz RH. Design and Application of a High-Throughput, High-Content Screening System for Natural Product Inhibitors of the Human Parasite Trichomonas vaginalis. ACS Infect Dis. 2019 08 09; 5(8):1456-1470.

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