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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord. 2019 Jul-Sep;33(3):246–253. doi: 10.1097/WAD.0000000000000311

Figure 1. Patient Representative and Clinician Views Regarding False Negative vs False Positive Dementia Diagnosis.

Figure 1.

After an explanation of the meaning of “false negative” and “false positive” test results, patient stakeholders and clinicians were asked how they felt these two possible testing errors compared. More clinicians worried about false positives (FP) and more patient representatives worried about false negatives (FNs) (p=0.02).