A family and community doctor is attending a patient with some symptoms that may be present in a certain disease. However, the patient does not hav...

A family and community doctor is attending a patient with some symptoms that may be present in a certain disease. However, the patient does not have some other symptoms that the doctor believes should be present in the same case. To assist in the diagnosis, the doctor decides to request a laboratory test. In this situation, select the correct option.


A) If the doctor chooses to request a very sensitive test, it is unlikely that, in the face of a positive result, the patient is not actually a carrier of the disease.
B) If the doctor chooses to request a very specific test, and the result is negative, the doctor can affirm that the patient is not actually a carrier of the disease.
C) The sensitivity and specificity of a test will depend on the prevalence of the disease in question.
D) The predictive value of a test depends on the prevalence of the disease in question.
E) The higher the prevalence of the disease in question, the higher the probability of a false positive result in the test.