Sentence examples for specificity is poor from inspiring English sources

However, their sensitivity and specificity is poor.

Though film screen mammography remains the only proven method of population-based screening, the specificity is poor, with only 5%40%% of lesions recommended for excision biopsy proving to be malignant [ 1– 3].

Colonization and clinical risk assessments are highly sensitive; however, their specificity is poor and positive predictive values ranging from 10 to 60% would imply that most patients with positive results would be treated in the absence of candidiasis.

The most marked bias occurs when genotyping sensitivity is poor and genotype prevalence is high (>85%) or, as the corollary, when genotyping specificity is poor and genotype prevalence is low (<15%) [ 65].

When these scores were used to identify a subset of patients at low risk of death (<5% risk of death) who could potentially be managed as outpatients, the sensitivities of the scores for identifying patients at risk of in-hospital mortality were good (≥85% for all scores) but the specificity was poor (≤ 40% for all scores) (Table 4).

However, specificity was poor at 43%.

Serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) sensitivity and specificity are poor (64 and 81%%, respectively).

Sensitivity of MNC to predict survival was higher than that of pCR-T or pCR, but specificity was poor.

These showed consistent results for a cut-off above 0.1, but specificity was poor for a cut-off of 0.1.

The depression prototype had good sensitivity using the cut-off of 2; however, the specificity was poor.

Although specificity was poor with transabdominal scanning, it was much improved with the introduction of transvaginal scanning, colour flow Doppler imaging and morphological scoring systems.