Gold standard for nclex Exam 3 2024

True Positive (TP) - Test is correct (T) because it matches gold standard Test is positive (P) for disease True Negative (TN) - Test is correct (T) because it matches gold standard Test is negative (N) for disease False Positive (FP) - Test is incorrect (F), it does not match gold standard Test is positive (P) for disease False Negative (FN) - Test is incorrect (F), it does not match gold standard Test is negative (N) for disease TP - correctly predicted disease TN - correctly predicted no disease FP - incorrectly predicted disease FN - incorrectly predicted no disease TP + FN - # of tested patients that have disease FP + TN - # of tested patients that do not have disease Sensitivity - the ability of a test to detect disease Sensitivity= - TP/(TP+FN)x100 Specificity - the ability of a test to detect the absence of disease Specificity= - TN/(TN+FP)x100