{"id":487,"date":"2020-10-20T09:12:44","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T09:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/cancerprevention\/?page_id=487"},"modified":"2020-10-20T09:12:44","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T09:12:44","slug":"positive-and-negative-predictive-value","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cancerprevention.qmul.ac.uk\/index.php\/positive-and-negative-predictive-value\/","title":{"rendered":"Positive and negative predictive value"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The probability that the test will give the correct diagnosis is captured by the positive and negative predictive values.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong><u>positive predictive value (PPV)<\/u><\/strong> of a test is the proportion of people with a positive screening test who will have cancer.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong><u>negative predictive value (NPV)<\/u><\/strong> of a test is the proportion of people with negative test result who do not have cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The probability that the test will give the correct diagnosis is captured by the positive and negative predictive values. The positive predictive value (PPV) of a test is the proportion of people with a positive screening test who will have cancer. The negative predictive value (NPV) of a test is the proportion of people with&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cancerprevention.qmul.ac.uk\/index.php\/positive-and-negative-predictive-value\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Positive and negative predictive value<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-487","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cancerprevention.qmul.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cancerprevention.qmul.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cancerprevention.qmul.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cancerprevention.qmul.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cancerprevention.qmul.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cancerprevention.qmul.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cancerprevention.qmul.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}