Band Cells: Band cells are a type of white blood cell. Band cells are the immature form of neutrophils and are produced rapidly during an infection. A large percentage of band cells in a venous blood sample indicate an infectious process occurring in the body.
Sensitivity and specificity. Sensitivity and specificity are concepts used to assess a clinical test. Sensitivity is a measure that determines the ability of a test to correctly classify an individual as sick or diseased. Specificity is a measure of the ability of a test to correctly classify an individual as healthy or disease-free. Parikh and others reckons that sensitivity and specificity are inversely proportional, which means that as the value of sensitivity increases, the value of specificity decreases and vice versa.
Sensitivity is the ability of a test to correctly identify individuals who have a given disease or condition. For example, a certain test may have proven to be 90% sensitive. If 100 people are known to have a certain disease, the test that identifies that disease will correctly do so for 90 of those 100 cases (90%).The other 10 people (10%) tested will not show the expected result for this test.For that 10%, the finding of a normal result can be misleading and is termed false-negative.he accuracy and precision of each test method are established and are frequently monitored by the professional laboratory personnel. Sensitivity and specificity data are determined by research studies and are generally found in medical literature.