Day N E
J Epidemiol Community Health. 1985 Dec;39(4):364-6. doi: 10.1136/jech.39.4.364.
A commonly used estimate of a screening test's sensitivity, based on the prevalence at screening and the incidence of interval cancers, is shown to be logically unsound and quantitatively poor. An alternative simple estimate is proposed, based only on incidence rates.
一种基于筛查时的患病率和间期癌发病率对筛查试验敏感性的常用估计方法,被证明在逻辑上不合理且在数量上不准确。本文提出了一种仅基于发病率的替代简单估计方法。