Medmastery: PPV and prevalence
The team at Medmastery are providing LITFL readers with a series of FOAMed courses from across their website. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be posting videos from their Epidemiology Essentials course.
In this video, Franz Wiesbauer looks at how a doctor can work out the probability of disease when confronted with a positive or a negative test result and how the prevalence of a given disease affects this probability.
Further reading
- Course: Epidemiology Essentials
- Mortality Rate
- Positive predictive value (PPV) and specificity
- Positive predictive value (PPV) and prevalence
- Prognosis and life tables
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