Preventive Medicine and Public Health
Subtitle: Pretest Self-Assessment and Review (Pretest - Self-Assessment and Review Clinical Science Series)
Edition: 8th edition
Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill (Tx)
Published: October 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780070525344
Subjects: Public health & preventive medicine; Preventive Medicine; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Health/Fitness; Public Health; Test Preparation & Review; Epidemiology; Examinations, questions, etc; Medicine, Preventive
First sentence: 1. Assuming that mammography has a sensitivity of 90% and a specificity of 98% and that consecutive tests are independent, what is the probability that a woman with breast cancer will have a negative yearly screening mammogram for two consecutive years?