The student will understand the general health maintenance requirements of the adult patient based on age and gender. The student will have a better understanding of controversial topics in health screening such as PSA, mammography and PAP smears. The student will be able to determine the necessary health screening items for special populations at risk such as the diabetic patient, the hypertensive patient at risk for cardiovascular diseases and the pregnant patient. As the true positives increase, the sensitivity increases. As your true negatives increase, the specificity increases.
Sensitivity increases at the expense of the specificity.
The sensitivity is usually given, so calculate the true positives and fill in that block. Then simply calculate all the other blocks and fill them in. Any intervention that prevents a pathologic process from occurring. Prevention of a progressive disability or other complication in established disease states. Insufficient data for upper age limit.