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Old 02-07-2009, 11:58 PM   #48 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by dippin View Post
- This is for the women. Beware of overworked gynecologists. One of the grants I was involved in was a major research project for the CDC related to HPV vaccination. One of the shocking things we learned during our research is that there is a very significant number of false negatives for HPV from pap tests mostly caused by "worker fatigue."
Pfft, I'm not even a woman and that scares me. "Worker fatigue" huh? False negatives are supposed to be a fraction of false positives in most tests and "significant number" sounds all bad.
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