TY - JOUR
AU - Gruer, Laurence
AU - Bhopal, Raj S.
PY - 2020
DA - July
TI - Rapid roll out of SARS-CoV-2 antibody testing: even at high levels of specificity, an important proportion of test results will be false positives
JO - BMJ
VL - 370
DO - https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m2910
AB - We have published a paper with 12 tables (in a supplementary file) with calculations of sensitivity, specificity, and the predictive power of a positive and negative test that will help people understand the concerns about the rapid roll-out of SARS-CoV-2 antibody tests expressed by Andersson and colleagues. With our colleagues we showed that even at high levels of specificity, an important proportion of positive test results will be false positives, when the prevalence of the infection in the population is low.
PB - BMJ Publishing Group
UR - https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/rapid-roll-out-of-sarscov2-antibody-testing(22c4eff3-9300-4152-8012-e4fb7eb5e935).html
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
ER