A new diagnostic test has a high sensitivity. This means that the test is very good at:

The correct answer to the question "A new diagnostic test has a high sensitivity. This means that the test is very good at:" is Option B: Correctly identifying individuals who have the disease.

The other options — A) Correctly identifying individuals who do not have the disease, C) Producing a high positive predictive value, D) Producing a high negative predictive value — are incorrect for this USMLE Exam Prep question. As explained above: Sensitivity is the proportion of actual positives that are correctly identified as such. A high sensitivity means the test is good at 'ruling out' a disease (few false negatives) and correctly identi…