Concepts of sensitivity and specificity in the evaluation of emergency medical services
| Autor: | Martin D. Keller, Geraldine B. Keller |
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| Rok vydání: | 1973 |
| Předmět: |
Service (business)
Emergency Medical Services business.industry Ambulances Statistics as Topic Models Theoretical medicine.disease Hospitalization Emergency medical care Transportation of Patients Emergency medical services Spite Humans Medicine Sensitivity (control systems) Medical emergency Emergency Service Hospital business |
| Zdroj: | Social Science & Medicine (1967). 7:861-864 |
| ISSN: | 0037-7856 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0037-7856(73)90109-1 |
| Popis: | The concept of sensitivity, in relating service to need, refers to a measure of the proportion of the individuals requiring a given service who actually receive it. Specificity, on the other hand, refers to a measure of the proportion of individuals who do not require a given service and who indeed do not receive it, in spite of the fact that they may be in the system in which the service is available. These concepts are applied to the sequence of services in emergency medical care systems. |
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