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1
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What is incidence of a disease?

A

The number of new cases of disease in a population over a certain period of time

2
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What is the prevalence of a disease?

A

The number of cases of the disease present in the population at a certain point in time

3
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What is the sensitivity of a test?

A

Proportion of those WITH the disease who are correctly identified by a POSITIVE RESULT

i.e the ability of a test to correctly identify people who have a disease

4
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What is the specificity of a test?

A

Proportion of those WITHOUT the disease who are correctly identified with a NEGATIVE RESULT

i.e the ability of the test to correctly identify people who don’t have a disease

5
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What is the positive predictive value of a test?

A

Testing true positives / True positives

6
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What is the negative predictive value of a test?

A

Testing true negatives / True negatives

7
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What is the yield of a test?

A

Number of previously undiagnosed people diagnosed with a disease by a screening programme