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There is no such thing as a perfect test in medicine, but TBD’s tests are highly accurate and similar to what you would find in a medical office. We work with a lab whose tests have been fully validated by state and federal guidelines, including CLIA and College of American Pathologist Standards (aka the best of the best).
There are two characteristics that typically help describe a test’s accuracy and performance: 1) sensitivity, which tells us how well the test finds a person WITH a disease, and 2) specificity, which tells us how well a test identifies a person WITHOUT a disease.
TL: DR: _The higher both the sensitivity and specificity, the more you can trust the results, whether positive or negative. TBD’s tests are both very specific and sensitive! _
Sensitivity is a measure of how good that test is at finding an infection when it’s there. In technical terms, it tells us how often a test correctly identifies a positive result for someone who has that condition, or a true positive.
Specificity tells us how good that test is at correctly identifying a healthy person WITHOUT an infection. In other words, it tells us how often a test correctly identifies a negative result for someone who does not have that condition, or a true negative.
Every test in the medical field, whether it’s imaging or a swab or bloodwork, is subject to some error. Some reasons that tests become less accurate include:
Check out our testing stats on specificity and sensitivity below:
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