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FDA faces backlash over approval of genetic test for opioid addiction risk (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 6 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/publichealth@mander.xyz

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[–] TacoNot@mander.xyz 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

SOLVD Health said in its application that AvertD had demonstrated a sensitivity of about 82% and a specificity of about 79%.

Those numbers suggest that roughly 1 in 5 results would be false negatives and roughly 1 in 5 would be false positives.

That doesn't seem very good

[–] jadero@mander.xyz 1 points 6 months ago

Total error rate is about 2/5? That's barely better than a coin flip.

"Oh yes, I just got tested for my potential to become an opioid addict. Give me a second to flip a coin: heads I read the report, tails I toss it in the recycle bin."