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1.Negative
predictive value can be defined as: “Among persons who test negative on
the screening test, the proportion who are actually disease free.”
2.Ideally,
the proportion should be very high and close to 1.0, as it is very
undesirable to have a negative screen test result when one truly has the
disease.
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