This explains in part, the perceived sequence specificity in lieu of finding homologs as reported previously [ 17].
8 One response to the perceived poor specificity of syndromic surveillance for recognising illness caused by the novel virus was the re-introduction of virological testing.
A criticism made in using CRP as a prognostic indicator is its perceived low specificity owing to its being an acute-phase reactant produced by the liver in a variety of inflammatory or infectious diseases.
It was surprising that there were no apparent differences between tests in terms of perceived sensitivity and specificity, despite large differences in the statistics provided.
The second group of comments indicated that the guideline had important omissions including "…no allowances for right hemisphere strokes or really low level dysphasics" and perceived a lack of specificity for communication-related recommendations compared to dysphagia-related recommendations.
As mentioned above, we believe this may reflect the lack of 'face validity' that bedside staff may have for the RRS because of the perceived poor sensitivity and specificity of the activation criteria.
Second, our results showed that the effects of objective clinical factors on specific perceived benefits and side effects were as hypothesized (each measure of perceived consequences was significantly associated with the particular clinical outcome to which it corresponded [sensitivity] and only with that outcome [specificity]).
Dr. Russell Portenoy, chairman of pain medicine and palliative care at Beth Israel, said the policy reflected the perceived perils of too much specificity.
31 We also estimated the sensitivity and specificity of the perceived age disparity in identifying relationships in which the man was 5 or 10 years older than the woman.
