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MRCPsych · Paper A

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A screening tool with 80% sensitivity and 80% specificity is applied to 10,000 people where the true base rate of a rare outcome is 1 in 1,000. Of everyone the tool flags, only a small fraction will truly have the outcome. Which of the following statistics does this fraction represent?

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