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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Being or relating to a result from a medical test that is erroneously negative.
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Examples
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The false-negative individual will be reassured and not pursue additional testing when, in fact, they have the disease or the risk of the disease in question.
Bruce A. Barron: Medicine and the Media: CRP Testing Bruce A. Barron 2011
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"It's an excellent effort to try to give guidance" that should minimize false-positive and false-negative results, said David E. Haines , director of the Heart Rhythm Center at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich., who was not part of the current study.
When Misread Heart Tests Eject Students From Games Katherine Hobson 2011
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It appears that the false-negative rate for HIV testing is in the neighborhood of 0.003%.
The Volokh Conspiracy » San Jose State University Continues to Suspend All Blood Drives on Campus 2010
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The false-negative individual will be reassured and not pursue additional testing when, in fact, they have the disease or the risk of the disease in question.
Bruce A. Barron: Medicine and the Media: CRP Testing Bruce A. Barron 2011
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In patients with IBD, false-negative assays for C. difficile could result in inappropriate and potentially harmful treatments.
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Second, 135 MSM who reported being HIV-positive but who had a negative or indeterminate HIV test result were excluded from analysis because of the possibility that they had false-negative NHBS test results; however, including these men as HIV-positive would have yielded a similar overall HIV prevalence (20% compared with 19%).
Alex Blaze: Media Outlets Fumble With CDC Data on MSM HIV Rates Alex Blaze 2010
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According to my non-exhaustive Web research, about 12% of gay men are HIV+, and it appears that the false-negative rate of HIV testing is approximately 0.003%.
The Volokh Conspiracy » San Jose State University Continues to Suspend All Blood Drives on Campus 2010
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Second, 135 MSM who reported being HIV-positive but who had a negative or indeterminate HIV test result were excluded from analysis because of the possibility that they had false-negative NHBS test results; however, including these men as HIV-positive would have yielded a similar overall HIV prevalence (20% compared with 19%).
Alex Blaze: Media Outlets Fumble With CDC Data on MSM HIV Rates Alex Blaze 2010
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The false-negative individual will be reassured and not pursue additional testing when, in fact, they have the disease or the risk of the disease in question.
Bruce A. Barron: Medicine and the Media: CRP Testing Bruce A. Barron 2011
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She said that an algorithm for spotting the presence of unattended packages automatically has already been field-tested, with a result of 18 true-positive hits, a seemingly highnine false-positive hits and two false-negative hits.
NYPD Developing CCTV Camera System That Will Be Better Than London’s 2010
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