28. Validity of Screening Test (Accuracy)
- Sensitivity: Is the test detecting true cases of
disease? (Ideal is 100%: 100% of cases are
detected)
-Specificity: Is the test excluding those without
disease? (Ideal is 100%: 100% of non-cases are
negative)
40. 2 X 2 tables
Gold standard
+ -
New + True + False +
test
- False - True -
41. Calculating SN and SP
Gold standard
+ -
New
+ TP FP
test
- FN TN
Sensitivity Specificity
TP/TP+FN TN/FP+TN
42. Pos and Neg Predictive Value
Gold standard
+ -
New + PV =
+ TP FP TP/TP+FP
test
- FN TN - PV =
TN/TN+FN
Sensitivity Specificity
43. Pos and Neg Predictive Value
Gold standard
+ -
New + PV
+ TP/TP+FP
test
- - PV
TN/TN+FN
Sensitivity Specificity
44. Pos and Neg Predictive Value
Gold standard
+ -
New + PV
+ TP/TP+FP
test
- - PV
TN/TN+FN
Sensitivity Specificity
45. Using predictive values
Tell you whether you should believe your
test results: very clinically useful!
While sensitivity and specificity are
constants, Predictive Values change
depending upon who you are testing
46. Example: low prevalence
1% of people have disease out of 1,000 tested (PRE-
TEST PROBABILITY)
+ -
+ + PV
New - - PV
10 9,990
Sensitivity Specificity
90% 90%
47. Calculate TP and FN
1% of people have disease out of 1,000 tested
+ -
+ PV
+ 9
New
- 1 - PV
10 9,990
Sensitivity Specificity
90% 90%
48. Calculate TN and FP
1% of people have disease out of 1,000 tested
+ -
+ PV
+ 9 99
New
- 1 891 - PV
10 990
Sensitivity Specificity
90% 90%
49. What are the Predictive Values?
1% of people have disease out of 1,000 tested
+ -
+ PV =
+ 9 99 8%
New
- 1 891 - PV =
99.9%
Sensitivity Specificity
90% 90%
50. How about a 50% pre-test prob
50% of people have disease out of 1,000 tested
+ -
+ PV=
+ 450 50 90%
New
- 50 450 - PV=
500 500 90%
Sensitivity Specificity
90% 90%
54. Consider:
-The impact of high number
of false positives:
anxiety, cost of further
testing
-Importance of not missing a
case:
seriousness of disease
Where do we set the cut-off for a screening test?
Editor's Notes
#11: Until recently, radiologists and other physicians have mainly practiced
in the realm of diagnosis rather than screening.
However, with the continuous in advances in noninvasive imaging tech,
we radiologists are increasingly practicing in the realm of screening.
Important differences between screening and diagnosis.
Dx involves patients, who are symptomatic and seek our help
Scr involves non-patients, whom are asymptomatic but told they should be sceened
Tests used for dx of symp dz often dx
Tests used for scr rarely dx, lead to add tests
In dx, dz prev high
In scr, dz prev low
#12: To understand screening, you must recognize that the target disease is a dynamic
process that evolves over time.
The dz process starts at some point before signs or symptoms begin. In the case
of cancer, onset is often defined by molecular changes in a cells DNA, which occur
long - sometimes decades - before the cancer produces and signs or symptoms. At
some later time, the dz process may become detectable by a scr test,
such as mammography or CT.
At yet later points, the dz produces signs or symptoms and eventually caused death
or some other adverse outcome. For simplicity sake, I will mainly focus on the
adverse outcome of death. The time period between S&S and D is the CP while
the time period between O and S&S is the PC. The time period between D and
S&S is the DCPC and is an important concept in screening.
#13: Another important concept in screening is the critical point.
Critical point may = time of distant metastasis
#14: For screening to be effective, the target disease must have a critical point, and
this critical point must occur during the DPCP.
#15: If CP is too early, then screening is futile.
#54: (Talk about sensitivity, specificity, false positives, false negatives)
No question that IOP is a RISK FACTOR for glaucoma, but its use as a screening tool is terrible-a level of 22 mg misses 50% of glaucoma cases, and incorrectly labels a high percentage of persons in population as having glaucoma.
#55: Extent that distributions overlap between normals and abnormals, minimizing error will be hard. For complex disorders with multiple causes, one test alone for just one cause may be woefully insufficient.