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Appendix C: Glossary
Pages 103-106

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... False positive–a person who does not have a disease but receives a positive test result. Incidental findings–clinical findings that are identified during diagnostic testing but are not related to the diagnostic test result (for lung cancer screening, this could include cardiac abnormalities, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, aneurysms, or masses in other tissues)
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... True Positives/(True Positives + False Negatives) Shared decision making–is a collaborative process that allows patients and their providers to make health care decisions together.
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... True Negatives/ (True Negatives + False Positives) REFERENCES American College of Physicians.
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  • negative test
  • cancer screening
  • correctly identified

  • lung cancer
  • care decisions
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  • allows patients
  • obstructive pulmonary
  • diagnostic test
  • advise people
  • help prepare

  • evidence available
  • cardiac abnormalities
  • diagnostic testing
  • prepare patients
  • collaborative process

  • include cardiac
  • result actually
  • chronic obstructive
  • survival duration
  • clinical evidence

  • references american
  • cancer due
  • progressing cancers
  • pulmonary disease
  • slowly progressing


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