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The hospital test was not that accurate. A more accurate test took 2 weeks, came back negative. It's most likely the inhaler but how is she supposed to know ex
by sickbeard 10y ago
The hospital test was not that accurate. A more accurate test took 2 weeks, came back negative.
It's most likely the inhaler but how is she supposed to know exactly what caused the hospital tests to fail? She's not a technician.
- serge2k 10y agoThey should have had the social worker come and explain things to her (false positives happen, the send away test is far more accurate, we aren't going to come and take your baby)
- JshWright 10y ago"Accurate" is too broad a term. The hospital test was likely very accurate, it was just optimized for sensitivity (being sure to catch it if it's there, at the expense of false positives), rather than specificity (being able to have a high degree of confidence that a positive test is true, at the expense of a higher false negative rate). It is _very_ common in medicine to use a very sensitive test to screen for conditions, and then cross check any positives with a more specific test (which is what should have been done in this case, prior to taking any action).