Population
Populations screened for disease conditions (example data from a diabetes survey)
Comparison
Proposed model for determining the optimum level… vs Other evaluation methods in use
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Screening programs should factor prevalence and test-result utilities into thresholds; leaves open empirical validation before clinical adoption.
This methodological paper proposes a model demonstrating that optimal screening thresholds must account for disease prevalence and the relative health values of true versus false test results.
Mark S. Blumberg (1957) studied this question.
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