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CH 5 Clinical Indications & Quality Assurance
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Undergraduate 2
11/01/2015

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Term

 _____ = "true positive" tests/all patients with the disease

= (TP/(TP+FN)

Definition
Sensitivity
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_______ = "true negative" tests/all patients without the disease

= TN/(TN+FP)

Definition
Specificity
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 _____ is the % of pts with the diagnosis correctly identified by the echo exam.

This is positive diagnosis

Definition
Sensitivity
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_____ is the % of pts without the diagnosis correctly identified by echo.
Definition
Specificity
Term
The higher the ____, the lower the _____. They are inversley related.
Definition
Sensitivity / Specificity
Term
Most common causes for adult murmur?
Definition
AS & MR
Term
Pericarditis
Definition

Not all cases will have effusion

& some will have fever and flu like symptoms

Term
LV diastolic dysfunction usually accompanies ___.
Definition

systolic dysfunction.

Predominatley with

hypertensive heart disease,

hypertrophy and infiltrative MI

Term
Constrictive pericarditits usually presents with___?
Definition
Right HF with ascites & peripheral edema
Term
____ can occur even with normal LV function due to obstruction of flow, elevated pulmonary diastolic pressure.
Definition
Valve disease
Term
If the goal of the test is identification of all patients with the disease, a ______ is preferable.
Definition
high sensitivity
Term
If the goal is confrimation of the diagnosis in an individual patient, a high _____ is preferable.
Definition
Specificity
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Accuracy
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Using a diagnostic test to determine whether a disease is present or absent depends on the ___ used to define the test as abnormal.
Definition
Cutoff value or breakpoint
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