VET Talks - Predicative Value of a Diagnostic Test Result

Presentation Outline

• Overview of uses of Diagnoses
• Process of Diagnostic Reasoning
• Diagnostic Test
• Test Performance and Interpretation at Individual Level
• Predictive Values
• Everything is Relative
• Predictive Value of a Negative Test Result
• Effect of Prevalence on Predive Values
• The Effect of the Herd

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This VET Talk is by Professor Dirk Pfeiffer, DVM, MANZCVSc, PhD, DipECVPH, Professor of Veterinary Epidemiology, Department of Production and Population Health, RVC, University of London (UK)