If a patient tests positive for a rare disease, which consequence follows for the predictive value of the test?

💡 Explanation

The predictive value of a positive test increases with specificity due to Bayes' Theorem, because a higher specificity reduces the chance of false positives, therefore increasing the probability that a positive result is a true positive, rather than arising from low specificity.

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