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false-negative rate Etymology: L, fallere, to deceive, negare, to deny, ratum, calculate the rate of occurrence of negative test results in subjects known to have the disease or behavior for which an individual is being tested. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In order that the targeted contact screening would not readily miss recently infected contacts, we chose a probability level with which the false-negative rate was close to the background rate of preexisting infection. In addition, to assess the false-negative rate of HER2 testing, invasive breast tumors of patients with metastatic disease that had been reported as HER2 negative in local hospitals were sequentially recruited from the local laboratories. The authors evaluated the false-negative rate of sentinel node biopsy in patients who had both sentinel node biopsy and axillary node dissection regardless of the outcome of sentinel node biopsy. |
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