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Taken together, these results highlight the challenge of communicating the benefit/harm balance of any particular screening modality (see for example, Brawley et al, 2011) and suggest that the public is probably relatively unresponsive to media debate on overdiagnosis.
However, because health utility decrements associated with these events often apply to a relative short time interval, these factors are unlikely to bias our finding in favour of any particular screening strategy and our ranking of strategies is likely to be robust.
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What screening is necessary to exclude tuberculosis has been controversial, however the negative predictive value of a screen is the most important statistic to give an indication of the proportion of cases that would be missed by any particular screen.
Finding one's way back to any particular screen is tricky, and I was not always able to do it.
"Before we advocate for a particular screening test, we need to demonstrate its potential benefit and define the patient populations for whom the test would be useful," said Blumenthal, who added that a CT angiography test can cost between $600 and $1,000.
Whether variations in display efficiency affect a particular screening method is determined by the detection sensitivity and specificity of that method.
The life expectancy of each cohort under a particular screening strategy was calculated.
This was asked as a general question and not in relation to a particular screening programme.
The patient recruitment is based on an assessment taking place in the practice on a particular screening day.
The fraction of screen-detected cancers overdiagnosed may be relevant in evaluating the performance of a particular screening program or in treatment decisions for DCIS.
The absolute value of V has a relative interpretation: the higher the value of V, the stronger a respondent's preference for a particular screening strategy.
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