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diagnostic test accuracy

— The ability of a diagnostic test to distinguish between people with a health condition and people without it

Synonyms:

test accuracy

Full explanation:

Diagnostic test accuracy is the proportion of people with a correct diagnosis out of all of the people tested.

Correct diagnoses include people correctly diagnosed as having the condition and people correctly diagnosed as not having the condition, when compared to a reference standard.

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