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Swift A, Heale R, Twycross A. What are sensitivity and specificity? Evid Based Nurs 2020;23:2–4. doi:10.1136/ebnurs-2019-103225

In this article, ‘There is a risk that a test with high specificity will capture some people who do not have Disease D (figure 3). The …

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