• Over 50% of those with Lyme disease get a false-negative on the testing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michealene Cristini Risley: Lyme: Emerging Disease or Hidden Epidemic?] Reference

It appears that the false-negative rate for HIV testing is in the neighborhood of 0.003%.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » San Jose State University Continues to Suspend All Blood Drives on Campus] Reference

The risk in deferring this part of the examination is the possibility of increasing false-negative conclusions by omission.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference

In patients with IBD, false-negative assays for C. difficile could result in inappropriate and potentially harmful treatments.    From Wordnik.com.  [IBD clinical studies: diagnostic testing] Reference

Regular screening and pelvic exams lead to detection in plenty of time for treatment and also minimize the long-term risks of a single false-negative result.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Pap Test an Accurate Method of Detecting Cervical Cancer?] Reference

The company's goal is to prove it can catch at least 90% of potential saboteurs -- a 10% false-negative rate -- while inconveniencing just 4% of innocent travelers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: August 13, 2006 - August 19, 2006 Archives] Reference

We'll be optimistic -- we'll assume the system has a one in 100 false-positive rate (99 percent accurate), and a one in 1,000 false-negative rate (99.9 percent accurate).    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Data Mining Won't Stop Terror] Reference

You know, I haven't -- you know, it's one of these things unless you're showing symptoms, they don't really recommend that you get tested because there's a very high false-negative rate.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 1, 2009] Reference

False-positive or false-negative results can "lead to more harm than good," with unnecessary, sometimes invasive follow-ups or a false sense that everything is A-OK, says Dr. Ned Calonge, who heads the group.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health: I Screen, You Screen] Reference

But there can be false-positive and false-negative results.    From Wordnik.com.  [Find Me A Cure] Reference

Such useless devices often show false-negative and false-positive.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Why The May 10, 2010 Philippine Polls Failed: The PCOS Forensics] Reference

This method potentially aids in reducing the number of false-negative association studies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

Their Phase III breast and melanoma cancer trial results were 97% accurate with a 0% false-negative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pending Neoprobe Catalysts Will Shape 2011 - Seeking Alpha] Reference

A detailed study found the EOS had a 93 percent false-positive rate and a 33 percent false-negative rate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heritage Foundation Papers] Reference

A sample might include only water without aggregates, giving false-negative results that no danger exists.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Diagnostic tests are subject to a range of problems that can lead to "false-positive" or "false-negative" results.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Boyz] Reference

However, up to 10-20 percent of IHC test results throughout the world may be inaccurate (false-positive or false-negative).    From Wordnik.com.  [Newswise: Latest News] Reference

In addition, 3 patients with a deficient ADAMTS13 activity were classified as false-negative diagnoses of ADAMTS13 deficiency.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Occasionally, the sentinel node biopsy will give a false-negative result, which means failing to find cancer even though it is present.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

"Past studies have shown that conventional MRIs can have a 42 percent false-negative interpretation for hip conditions," said Dr. Kelly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference

When you hear a phrase like, "our system is 95 percent accurate," it usually refers to the false-negative rate - or the connections it missed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Government Computer News Current Issue] Reference

Studies have shown the screening over-diagnoses breast cancer and can lead to false-negative results causing physical and mental harm to women.    From Wordnik.com.  [foodconsumer.org] Reference

Also important, new thermography technologies do not lose effectiveness with dense breast tissue, decreasing the chances of false-negative results.    From Wordnik.com.  [Information Liberation] Reference

According to the National Cancer Institute (NCI), in women ages 40-49, there is a high rate of "missed tumors," resulting in 40% false-negative mammogram results.    From Wordnik.com.  [Information Liberation] Reference

CD24 not only predicts the presence of the cancer with a low false-positive and false-negative rate, but also can detect high-risk precancerous growths, Kraus says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

The illustrative cases highlight some factors contributing to the delays, including false-negative rapid diagnostic test results and not taking oseltamivir as prescribed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flu.gov RSS Feed for News Releases] Reference

The classic example is proportion of false-positive, false-negative and forced alkaline diuresis using intravenous sodium inaccurately quantitated clinical laboratory results.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Some of the factors in those delays included rapid diagnostic tests that produced false-negative results, and failure to take oseltamivir as prescribed, the researchers said.    From Wordnik.com.  [MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians] Reference

The application might generate a false-negative reading from the RDS Application Compatibility Analyzer indicating that the application will behave correctly with the application.    From Wordnik.com.  [MSDN Blogs] Reference

It’s a question of how “rich” the cases could be in real issues, compared to missing real issues. (false-positive and false-negative rates).    From Wordnik.com.  [Community policing: a business somebody should start (hint, hint) « BuzzMachine] Reference

We’ll be optimistic — we’ll assume the system has a one in 100 false-positive rate (99 percent accurate), and a one in 1,000 false-negative rate (99.9 percent accurate).    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake » Constitutional Disconnect] Reference

"However, if used as a diagnostic tool, it will generate false-positive and false-negative diagnoses.    From Wordnik.com.  [CAMLAW: Complementary and Alternative Medicine Law Blog] Reference

So we have been selected for minimization of the false-negative rate, but the false-positive rate has hardly been under selection at all.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Pharyngula] Reference

The limited size of 9p21 deletion was found to account for false-negative detection by either BAC arrays (hybridization (n = 2), especially in patients with Sézary syndrome (.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference