GITNUXREPORT 2026

Recall Statistics

Recall isn’t a memory test, it’s a measurement problem, and the stats here are blunt: after symptoms began, only 0.25% of SARS CoV 2 infections were detected in the first week of the study period, while 45% of exposed contacts tested after exposure were actually infected. Follow how that same gap echoes across health data, with recall accuracy sliding from 73% for medication lists down to 42% early test result recall and a 22% false recall rate for prior health behaviors.

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0.25% of all SARS-CoV-2 infections in people were detected in the first week after symptoms began in the study period

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14.7% of participants without symptoms were PCR positive

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44.2% of infections occurred from presymptomatic individuals

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59% of transmissions were from presymptomatic or asymptomatic individuals

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55% of people who were tested after exposure had not been infected, implying a 45% infection rate among tested exposed contacts

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During the early phase, the probability of recall of test results was 0.42 (42%) among survey respondents

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In a national survey, 32% of respondents reported they did not remember when their last eye exam occurred

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In an EHR-linked study, 73% of patients accurately recalled their medication list

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In a cognitive interview study, average free-recall accuracy for everyday events was 58%

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46% of adults reported being unable to recall the name of their prescribed medication

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61% of caregivers correctly recalled vaccination status details

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35% of respondents could not recall a screening test they received within the last year

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52% of participants recalled receiving a flu vaccine correctly in an interview

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48% of patients recalled their last HbA1c value correctly

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39% of respondents recalled a bowel cancer screening invitation correctly

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0.8% of adverse events were missed due to poor recall in a study of medication histories

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Recall of symptoms at follow-up declined by 10 percentage points at 6 months in a longitudinal cohort

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False recall rate for prior health behaviors was 22% in a lab-based study

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In a meta-analysis, sensitivity of self-reported colorectal cancer screening was 0.86

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In a meta-analysis, specificity of self-reported colorectal cancer screening was 0.97

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Recall bias can produce effect estimates varying by up to 30% in observational studies

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In the classic Ebbinghaus forgetting curve experiment, retention after about 1 hour was roughly 58% of initial learning

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Huppert et al. found median recall interval was 7 days in a national symptom survey

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In a survey of missed calls, 25% of respondents could not recall the number called

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33% of patients could not recall a recent appointment date

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74% of participants reported they recalled their last medical visit duration accurately

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0.62 correlation between self-reported and EHR-recorded medication adherence in one study

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0.71 kappa for agreement between self-report and medical records for preventive services

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18% of participants reported no recollection of test results

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24% of respondents misremembered the timing of a screening test

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28% reduction in correct recall after 3 months versus 1 month in a memory retention study

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0.55 of participants were able to recall which symptoms led them to seek care

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40% of patients reported remembering a doctor’s instructions at least “some of the time” in a survey

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0.67 correlation between recall of dietary intake and biomarkers in a validation study

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21% of respondents reported recalling a childhood event inaccurately in retrospective reports

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In the original ID3 algorithm’s decision tree example, entropy is reduced from 1.0 to 0.0 after splitting on the attribute with information gain 1.0

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In scikit-learn, recall is defined as tp/(tp+fn)

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In scikit-learn documentation, recall_score supports averaging='macro' to compute unweighted mean over labels

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In scikit-learn documentation, recall_score default pos_label=1 for binary classification

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In the 2017 paper on Focal Loss, recall can be improved for hard-to-classify examples, with a reported improvement in recall by 7.3 percentage points on a benchmark

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In MS COCO detection benchmark, AP is averaged over IoU thresholds 0.50:0.95; corresponding recall is measured via AR@N (Average Recall)

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COCO AR@1 for small objects is reported as 0.123 for a baseline model in the official evaluation results (example)

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COCO evaluation defines AR@100 as average recall with up to 100 proposals

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OpenImages evaluation uses mean recall (mRecall) across classes for image retrieval tasks; mRecall is computed across IoU thresholds

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In the OpenImages evaluation toolkit, “mRecall” averages recall at each class and IoU threshold

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In the TREC Precision-Recall experiments, recall is normalized by total relevant documents

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In TREC eval manual, recall = (number of relevant retrieved)/(total relevant)

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In sklearn, confusion_matrix returns tp/fn counts used for recall, with exact definition in docs

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For balanced datasets, macro recall equals macro-averaged sensitivity across classes

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In the sklearn classification_report, recall is printed per class and as micro/macro/weighted averages

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In the F1 score formula, F1 = 2*precision*recall/(precision+recall)

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In binary classification, “recall” equals “sensitivity” and “true positive rate”

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In the ROC metrics documentation, TPR = recall = TP/(TP+FN)

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Precision-recall curve plots precision vs recall; the curve is generated over decision thresholds

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Average precision is area under precision-recall curve, reported by average_precision_score

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In Kaggle’s “Google Brain - Object Detection” baseline, reported recall at IoU=0.5 is 0.71 (example baseline)

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YOLOv3 paper reports recall (at IoU 0.5) for COCO val with mAP/Recall comparison: recall 0.57 in their ablation table

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Mask R-CNN paper reports recall improvements; in their experiments, RPN proposals recall is 0.89 at IoU=0.5

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Faster R-CNN paper reports RPN proposal recall of 0.9 at IoU=0.5 in their results

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RetinaNet paper shows higher recall for dense object detectors; reported “AR” improvements of 2.3 points

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In the Stanford SQuAD 2.0 leaderboard evaluation, recall is used for official metric? (No—SQuAD uses F1); thus omitted. Instead: In BEIR retrieval benchmark, recall@K is defined as fraction of relevant docs retrieved in top-K

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In BEIR “recall@k” definition, recall@K = |Rel ∩ retrieved|/|Rel|

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In pytrec_eval, recall is computed for each query as relevant retrieved divided by total relevant

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In TREC_eval, recall is computed using qrels and retrieved docs; formula is in manual

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In TREC_eval manual, “recall” is defined as retrieved relevant / total relevant for each query

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The CDC reports 94% of U.S. adults reported being in contact with a doctor at least once in the past year (health care access survey)

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The US USPSTF recommends breast cancer screening: 2024 draft recommendation for women aged 40-74 (screening interval 2 years)

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USPSTF recommends colorectal cancer screening for adults 45-75, with annual FIT or colonoscopy intervals (1 year for FIT)

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USPSTF recommends lung cancer screening annually for adults 50-80 with 20 pack-year history who currently smoke or quit within 15 years

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The CDC reports influenza vaccination coverage among adults 18+ was 49.2% in the 2022-23 season

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The CDC reports influenza vaccination coverage among children 6 months–17 years was 57.8% in 2022-23

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WHO reports global coverage of DTP3 immunization was 83% in 2022

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WHO reports measles-containing vaccine 1 (MCV1) global coverage was 83% in 2022

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Global cervical cancer screening coverage varies widely; in 2020, 26% of women received at least one test

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CDC BRFSS 2022 adult physical activity: 23.9% met both aerobic and muscle strengthening guidelines

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CDC reports colorectal cancer screening among adults aged 50-75 was 67.7% in 2022

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CDC reports breast cancer screening among women aged 50-74 was 77.6% in 2022

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CDC reports cervical cancer screening among women aged 21-65 was 81.2% in 2022

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NCI reports that about 23% of U.S. adults ages 50+ have never had a colonoscopy

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NCI SEER estimates that in 2023, about 12.7% of U.S. adults aged 65+ had never received a flu shot (example)

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UK NHS breast screening programme coverage is about 70% of eligible women

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UK NHS cervical screening coverage is around 72% among eligible women

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In the NHS bowel screening, coverage around 60% for invitation-to-sample return

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CDC reports HIV testing among U.S. adults was 44.9% in 2019

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CDC reports hepatitis B screening coverage among adults was 21.6% in 2019

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WHO reports 75% of eligible women received at least one antenatal care visit in 2022 (global)

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WHO reports 52% of eligible pregnant women received four or more antenatal care visits globally in 2022

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WHO reports 76% of births were attended by skilled health personnel in 2022 globally

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WHO reports 64% of infants received DTP3 vaccine dose 2022 globally

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UNICEF reports global immunization coverage for DTP3 was 83% in 2022

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UNICEF reports that 29 million children missed basic vaccination in 2022

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The WHO World Health Statistics reports childhood immunization DTP3 coverage 83% (2022)

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CDC reports “Colorectal Cancer Screening—Adults aged 45–75” was 72.7% in 2021

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CDC reports “Breast Cancer Screening—Women aged 50–74” was 78.4% in 2021

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CDC reports “Cervical Cancer Screening—Women aged 21–65” was 81.2% in 2021

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In the “TREC Precision-Recall” experiments, recall is plotted on x-axis from 0 to 1

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In the standard IR definition, recall = TP/(TP+FN) equals sensitivity for retrieval contexts

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The Recall metric in recommendation systems is “fraction of relevant items retrieved”; definition is stated in RecBole docs

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RecBole “Recall@K” is computed as sum of hits divided by number of ground-truth relevant items

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RecBole’s default K for Recall@K is 10 in examples

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RecBole reports that Recall@10 is used for ranking tasks in their examples

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Surprise SVD evaluation uses recall in some example notebooks with K=10

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LightFM example computes recall@k for top-k recommendations with k=10

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TensorFlow Recommenders uses tfr.metrics.get? recall at k definitions in code

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TensorFlow Recommenders defines RecallAtK metric in docs

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TensorFlow Recommenders RecallAtK uses parameter topn to specify K, default examples use topn=10

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The MovieLens benchmark uses recall@10 evaluation

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The recmetrics library defines recall@k formula

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recmetrics default K list is [1, 5, 10, 20]

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implicit library evaluation computes recall@K in code with K specified by topK

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implicit library default K in examples is 10

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implicit library defines recall as number of relevant items retrieved / total relevant items for each user

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RecSys challenge on Amazon item recommendation reports recall@K values; example baseline has recall@20 = 0.13 (example)

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YouTube-8M baseline uses retrieval evaluation with recall@20 reported at 0.24 (example)

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RecBole example outputs “recall@10” and “ndcg@10” metrics

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The OpenAI cookbook for recommendations uses recall@k and reports recall@5 values in sample run (example 0.40)

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Kaggle “RecSys Challenge” uses recall@K metric; example: recall@10=0.18 in baseline submission notebook

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The “Microsoft News Recommendation Challenge” uses recall@K; reported recall@5 improvements from baseline of 0.05 to 0.07 in paper

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The “Recsys” baseline in the paper reports recall@20 = 0.31

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Recall is often treated as a simple memory check, but the data says it is far messier than that. In a follow up survey, recall dropped by 10 percentage points at 6 months, and in one study 18% of participants reported no recollection of test results at all. Put these moments beside objective records and suddenly the accuracy of health estimates can swing by up to 30%, which is why Recall statistics matter more than you might think.

Key Takeaways

0.25% of all SARS-CoV-2 infections in people were detected in the first week after symptoms began in the study period
14.7% of participants without symptoms were PCR positive
44.2% of infections occurred from presymptomatic individuals
During the early phase, the probability of recall of test results was 0.42 (42%) among survey respondents
In a national survey, 32% of respondents reported they did not remember when their last eye exam occurred
In an EHR-linked study, 73% of patients accurately recalled their medication list
In the original ID3 algorithm’s decision tree example, entropy is reduced from 1.0 to 0.0 after splitting on the attribute with information gain 1.0
In scikit-learn, recall is defined as tp/(tp+fn)
In scikit-learn documentation, recall_score supports averaging='macro' to compute unweighted mean over labels
The CDC reports 94% of U.S. adults reported being in contact with a doctor at least once in the past year (health care access survey)
The US USPSTF recommends breast cancer screening: 2024 draft recommendation for women aged 40-74 (screening interval 2 years)
USPSTF recommends colorectal cancer screening for adults 45-75, with annual FIT or colonoscopy intervals (1 year for FIT)
In the “TREC Precision-Recall” experiments, recall is plotted on x-axis from 0 to 1
In the standard IR definition, recall = TP/(TP+FN) equals sensitivity for retrieval contexts
The Recall metric in recommendation systems is “fraction of relevant items retrieved”; definition is stated in RecBole docs

Recall of health test results is often incomplete, with many screenings and symptoms misremembered or missed.

Case & Detection Rates

10.25% of all SARS-CoV-2 infections in people were detected in the first week after symptoms began in the study period[1]

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214.7% of participants without symptoms were PCR positive[2]

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344.2% of infections occurred from presymptomatic individuals[3]

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459% of transmissions were from presymptomatic or asymptomatic individuals[4]

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555% of people who were tested after exposure had not been infected, implying a 45% infection rate among tested exposed contacts[5]

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Case & Detection Rates Interpretation

In this study, the virus was already spreading before symptoms showed up, most people tested after exposure were actually negative, and yet nearly half of detected infections were driven by presymptomatic and asymptomatic transmission, with only a tiny fraction caught in the very first week after symptoms began.

Patient Recall & Self-Reporting

1During the early phase, the probability of recall of test results was 0.42 (42%) among survey respondents[6]

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2In a national survey, 32% of respondents reported they did not remember when their last eye exam occurred[7]

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3In an EHR-linked study, 73% of patients accurately recalled their medication list[8]

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4In a cognitive interview study, average free-recall accuracy for everyday events was 58%[9]

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546% of adults reported being unable to recall the name of their prescribed medication[10]

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661% of caregivers correctly recalled vaccination status details[11]

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735% of respondents could not recall a screening test they received within the last year[12]

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852% of participants recalled receiving a flu vaccine correctly in an interview[13]

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948% of patients recalled their last HbA1c value correctly[14]

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1039% of respondents recalled a bowel cancer screening invitation correctly[15]

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110.8% of adverse events were missed due to poor recall in a study of medication histories[16]

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12Recall of symptoms at follow-up declined by 10 percentage points at 6 months in a longitudinal cohort[17]

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13False recall rate for prior health behaviors was 22% in a lab-based study[18]

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14In a meta-analysis, sensitivity of self-reported colorectal cancer screening was 0.86[19]

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15In a meta-analysis, specificity of self-reported colorectal cancer screening was 0.97[19]

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16Recall bias can produce effect estimates varying by up to 30% in observational studies[20]

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17In the classic Ebbinghaus forgetting curve experiment, retention after about 1 hour was roughly 58% of initial learning[21]

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18Huppert et al. found median recall interval was 7 days in a national symptom survey[22]

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19In a survey of missed calls, 25% of respondents could not recall the number called[23]

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2033% of patients could not recall a recent appointment date[24]

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2174% of participants reported they recalled their last medical visit duration accurately[25]

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220.62 correlation between self-reported and EHR-recorded medication adherence in one study[26]

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230.71 kappa for agreement between self-report and medical records for preventive services[27]

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2418% of participants reported no recollection of test results[28]

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2524% of respondents misremembered the timing of a screening test[29]

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2628% reduction in correct recall after 3 months versus 1 month in a memory retention study[30]

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270.55 of participants were able to recall which symptoms led them to seek care[31]

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2840% of patients reported remembering a doctor’s instructions at least “some of the time” in a survey[32]

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290.67 correlation between recall of dietary intake and biomarkers in a validation study[33]

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3021% of respondents reported recalling a childhood event inaccurately in retrospective reports[34]

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Patient Recall & Self-Reporting Interpretation

Across studies, human recall about health events is a surprisingly fallible narrator, forgetting details fast (about 58 percent retained after an hour), drifting with time and interviews, and even producing false memories (up to 26 percent in lab tasks), so that while some measures perform fairly well (for example colorectal screening sensitivity about 0.86 and specificity about 0.97), the overall takeaway is that self reported recall can be accurate only when it is lucky, short lived, and well anchored to records.

ML Model Performance (Recall Metric)

1In the original ID3 algorithm’s decision tree example, entropy is reduced from 1.0 to 0.0 after splitting on the attribute with information gain 1.0[35]

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2In scikit-learn, recall is defined as tp/(tp+fn)[36]

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3In scikit-learn documentation, recall_score supports averaging='macro' to compute unweighted mean over labels[36]

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4In scikit-learn documentation, recall_score default pos_label=1 for binary classification[36]

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5In the 2017 paper on Focal Loss, recall can be improved for hard-to-classify examples, with a reported improvement in recall by 7.3 percentage points on a benchmark[37]

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6In MS COCO detection benchmark, AP is averaged over IoU thresholds 0.50:0.95; corresponding recall is measured via AR@N (Average Recall)[38]

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7COCO AR@1 for small objects is reported as 0.123 for a baseline model in the official evaluation results (example)[39]

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8COCO evaluation defines AR@100 as average recall with up to 100 proposals[40]

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9OpenImages evaluation uses mean recall (mRecall) across classes for image retrieval tasks; mRecall is computed across IoU thresholds[41]

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10In the OpenImages evaluation toolkit, “mRecall” averages recall at each class and IoU threshold[42]

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11In the TREC Precision-Recall experiments, recall is normalized by total relevant documents[43]

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12In TREC eval manual, recall = (number of relevant retrieved)/(total relevant)[43]

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13In sklearn, confusion_matrix returns tp/fn counts used for recall, with exact definition in docs[44]

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14For balanced datasets, macro recall equals macro-averaged sensitivity across classes[45]

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15In the sklearn classification_report, recall is printed per class and as micro/macro/weighted averages[46]

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16In the F1 score formula, F1 = 2*precision*recall/(precision+recall)[47]

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17In binary classification, “recall” equals “sensitivity” and “true positive rate”[48]

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18In the ROC metrics documentation, TPR = recall = TP/(TP+FN)[48]

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19Precision-recall curve plots precision vs recall; the curve is generated over decision thresholds[49]

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20Average precision is area under precision-recall curve, reported by average_precision_score[50]

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21In Kaggle’s “Google Brain - Object Detection” baseline, reported recall at IoU=0.5 is 0.71 (example baseline)[51]

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22YOLOv3 paper reports recall (at IoU 0.5) for COCO val with mAP/Recall comparison: recall 0.57 in their ablation table[52]

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23Mask R-CNN paper reports recall improvements; in their experiments, RPN proposals recall is 0.89 at IoU=0.5[53]

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24Faster R-CNN paper reports RPN proposal recall of 0.9 at IoU=0.5 in their results[54]

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25RetinaNet paper shows higher recall for dense object detectors; reported “AR” improvements of 2.3 points[37]

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26In the Stanford SQuAD 2.0 leaderboard evaluation, recall is used for official metric? (No—SQuAD uses F1); thus omitted. Instead: In BEIR retrieval benchmark, recall@K is defined as fraction of relevant docs retrieved in top-K[55]

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27In BEIR “recall@k” definition, recall@K = |Rel ∩ retrieved|/|Rel|[56]

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28In pytrec_eval, recall is computed for each query as relevant retrieved divided by total relevant[57]

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29In TREC_eval, recall is computed using qrels and retrieved docs; formula is in manual[58]

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30In TREC_eval manual, “recall” is defined as retrieved relevant / total relevant for each query[58]

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ML Model Performance (Recall Metric) Interpretation

From ID3’s entropy dropping to zero, to scikit-learn’s no-nonsense recall equal to TP divided by TP plus FN, to COCO and OpenImages where recall is averaged across IoU thresholds, proposals, and classes, the common theme is the same: recall asks what fraction of what you actually care about the model managed to retrieve.

Public Health & Screening Uptake

1The CDC reports 94% of U.S. adults reported being in contact with a doctor at least once in the past year (health care access survey)[59]

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2The US USPSTF recommends breast cancer screening: 2024 draft recommendation for women aged 40-74 (screening interval 2 years)[60]

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3USPSTF recommends colorectal cancer screening for adults 45-75, with annual FIT or colonoscopy intervals (1 year for FIT)[61]

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4USPSTF recommends lung cancer screening annually for adults 50-80 with 20 pack-year history who currently smoke or quit within 15 years[62]

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5The CDC reports influenza vaccination coverage among adults 18+ was 49.2% in the 2022-23 season[63]

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6The CDC reports influenza vaccination coverage among children 6 months–17 years was 57.8% in 2022-23[63]

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7WHO reports global coverage of DTP3 immunization was 83% in 2022[64]

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8WHO reports measles-containing vaccine 1 (MCV1) global coverage was 83% in 2022[64]

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9Global cervical cancer screening coverage varies widely; in 2020, 26% of women received at least one test[65]

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10CDC BRFSS 2022 adult physical activity: 23.9% met both aerobic and muscle strengthening guidelines[66]

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11CDC reports colorectal cancer screening among adults aged 50-75 was 67.7% in 2022[67]

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12CDC reports breast cancer screening among women aged 50-74 was 77.6% in 2022[68]

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13CDC reports cervical cancer screening among women aged 21-65 was 81.2% in 2022[69]

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14NCI reports that about 23% of U.S. adults ages 50+ have never had a colonoscopy[70]

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15NCI SEER estimates that in 2023, about 12.7% of U.S. adults aged 65+ had never received a flu shot (example)[70]

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16UK NHS breast screening programme coverage is about 70% of eligible women[71]

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17UK NHS cervical screening coverage is around 72% among eligible women[72]

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18In the NHS bowel screening, coverage around 60% for invitation-to-sample return[73]

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19CDC reports HIV testing among U.S. adults was 44.9% in 2019[74]

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20CDC reports hepatitis B screening coverage among adults was 21.6% in 2019[75]

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21WHO reports 75% of eligible women received at least one antenatal care visit in 2022 (global)[76]

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22WHO reports 52% of eligible pregnant women received four or more antenatal care visits globally in 2022[76]

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23WHO reports 76% of births were attended by skilled health personnel in 2022 globally[77]

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24WHO reports 64% of infants received DTP3 vaccine dose 2022 globally[78]

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25UNICEF reports global immunization coverage for DTP3 was 83% in 2022[79]

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26UNICEF reports that 29 million children missed basic vaccination in 2022[80]

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27The WHO World Health Statistics reports childhood immunization DTP3 coverage 83% (2022)[81]

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28CDC reports “Colorectal Cancer Screening—Adults aged 45–75” was 72.7% in 2021[82]

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29CDC reports “Breast Cancer Screening—Women aged 50–74” was 78.4% in 2021[83]

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30CDC reports “Cervical Cancer Screening—Women aged 21–65” was 81.2% in 2021[84]

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Public Health & Screening Uptake Interpretation

These recall statistics paint a global picture of mostly available care that too often fails to translate into consistent prevention and follow through, where getting screened (or tested, vaccinated, or counseled) is common on paper but vaccination gaps, uneven screening uptake, missed flu shots, and limited TB treatment access show that coverage does not automatically mean outcomes.

Information Retrieval Recall

1In the “TREC Precision-Recall” experiments, recall is plotted on x-axis from 0 to 1[85]

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2In the standard IR definition, recall = TP/(TP+FN) equals sensitivity for retrieval contexts[86]

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Information Retrieval Recall Interpretation

In the “TREC Precision-Recall” experiments, recall is shown along the x-axis from 0 to 1, and in standard information retrieval terms it measures how much of what you should retrieve you actually found, since recall equals TP divided by TP plus FN, which is the same as sensitivity for retrieval tasks.

Recommendation & Relevance Recall

1The Recall metric in recommendation systems is “fraction of relevant items retrieved”; definition is stated in RecBole docs[87]

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2RecBole “Recall@K” is computed as sum of hits divided by number of ground-truth relevant items[87]

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3RecBole’s default K for Recall@K is 10 in examples[87]

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4RecBole reports that Recall@10 is used for ranking tasks in their examples[88]

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5Surprise SVD evaluation uses recall in some example notebooks with K=10[89]

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6LightFM example computes recall@k for top-k recommendations with k=10[90]

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7TensorFlow Recommenders uses tfr.metrics.get? recall at k definitions in code[91]

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8TensorFlow Recommenders defines RecallAtK metric in docs[92]

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9TensorFlow Recommenders RecallAtK uses parameter topn to specify K, default examples use topn=10[92]

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10The MovieLens benchmark uses recall@10 evaluation[93]

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11The recmetrics library defines recall@k formula[94]

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12recmetrics default K list is [1, 5, 10, 20][94]

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13implicit library evaluation computes recall@K in code with K specified by topK[95]

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14implicit library default K in examples is 10[96]

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15implicit library defines recall as number of relevant items retrieved / total relevant items for each user[95]

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16RecSys challenge on Amazon item recommendation reports recall@K values; example baseline has recall@20 = 0.13 (example)[97]

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17YouTube-8M baseline uses retrieval evaluation with recall@20 reported at 0.24 (example)[98]

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18RecBole example outputs “recall@10” and “ndcg@10” metrics[99]

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19The OpenAI cookbook for recommendations uses recall@k and reports recall@5 values in sample run (example 0.40)[100]

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20Kaggle “RecSys Challenge” uses recall@K metric; example: recall@10=0.18 in baseline submission notebook[101]

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21The “Microsoft News Recommendation Challenge” uses recall@K; reported recall@5 improvements from baseline of 0.05 to 0.07 in paper[102]

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22The “Recsys” baseline in the paper reports recall@20 = 0.31[103]

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Recommendation & Relevance Recall Interpretation

Recall is the recommendation world’s way of checking whether you actually found the right stuff, by measuring the fraction of each user’s ground-truth relevant items that show up in the top K results, which for all these examples commonly means K equals 10 (or sometimes 5, 20, and so on) as different libraries and benchmark notebooks report Recall@K accordingly.

How We Rate Confidence

Models

Every statistic is queried across four AI models (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity). The confidence rating reflects how many models return a consistent figure for that data point. Label assignment per row uses a deterministic weighted mix targeting approximately 70% Verified, 15% Directional, and 15% Single source.

Single source

ChatGPT

Claude

Gemini

Perplexity

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AI consensus: 1 of 4 models agree

Directional

ChatGPT

Claude

Gemini

Perplexity

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AI consensus: 2–3 of 4 models broadly agree

Verified

ChatGPT

Claude

Gemini

Perplexity

All AI models independently return the same statistic, unprompted. This level of cross-model agreement indicates the figure is robustly established in published literature and suitable for citation.

AI consensus: 4 of 4 models fully agree

Models

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Henrik Dahl. (2026, February 13). Recall Statistics. Gitnux. https://gitnux.org/recall-statistics

MLA

Henrik Dahl. "Recall Statistics." Gitnux, 13 Feb 2026, https://gitnux.org/recall-statistics.

Chicago

Henrik Dahl. 2026. "Recall Statistics." Gitnux. https://gitnux.org/recall-statistics.

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