Sensitivity
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A characteristic of the performance of a diagnostic test, defined as the proportion of persons who have a positive test result among the persons who have the disease; it is calculated as follows: true positives ÷ (true positives + false negatives).
Related concepts: accuracy, ROC curve and specificity.