Sentence examples for because of lower specificity from inspiring English sources

Because of lower specificity and higher cost, compared to mammography, MRI may not be optimal for breast cancer screening.

From a clinical perspective, a screening questionnaire must have good sensitivity even if that increases false positives because of lower specificity [ 27].

HIV viral load tests (which detect HIV RNA in blood plasma) are not usually recommended for the diagnosis of HIV infection because of lower specificity and therefore higher chance for false positive results, although the test may be useful in detecting acute HIV infection in the right clinical context when seroconversion has not yet occurred.

This may lead to some overuse of antibiotics because of a lower specificity, but in terms of consequence for the individual patient we consider this to be a lesser concern than withholding antibiotics from the infected patient.

Because of the lower specificity of the HPV test, many women who do not have CIN or cancer attend triage tests after a positive HPV test.

Furthermore the CFS, because of its lower specificity, <50 % for each of the three outcomes, was less efficient in identifying and triaging older adults.

The range of these results showed that the naïve cut-off was varied and unreliable because of the lower specificity especially at cut off value 0.1.

AQP4-IgM was elevated in AQP4-IgG positive patients, however because of lower sensitivity and specificity its role as biomarker in NMO remains unclear.

The often-negative association of the weighting factor with the lnDOR gives studies with lower discriminative diagnostic odds ratios – because of lower sensitivity and/or specificity – a larger weight.

Based on these numbers, local pain provocation during palpation of the upper cervical spine showed a high sensitivity of 0.888 and a lower specificity of 0.507, because half of the non-headache participants also reported local pain.

Because of the high sensitivity and lower specificity of breast MRI, it is imperative that these findings be histologically assessed before any surgical intervention [ 8– 10].