diagnostic test accuracy
Cochrane diagnostic test accuracy reviews
... and Diagnostic Test Methods Group, and other international experts met together in Freiburg, Germany, to discuss and agree on appropriate methods for each step in a meta-analysis of diagnostic ...
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Measuring the impact of screening automation on meta-analyses of diagnostic test accuracy
... Background: The large and increasing number of new studies published each year is making literature identification in systematic reviews ever more time-consuming and costly. Technological assistance has been suggested as ...
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Recommendations for reporting of systematic reviews and meta-analyses of diagnostic test accuracy: a systematic review
... We consulted existing guidance on the reporting of system- atic reviews and the published literature related to the conduct and reporting of DTA systematic reviews to identify 64 potential items for reporting DTA ...
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Latent class bivariate model for the meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy studies
... Reitsma and others [12] proposed the direct analysis of sensitivity and specificity estimates using a bivariate model BM, which yields a rigorous method for the meta- analysis of data on diagnostic test ...
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Utility of the methylated SEPT9 test for the early detection of colorectal cancer: a systematic review and meta analysis of diagnostic test accuracy
... on accuracy and positive test cut- off ...assess diagnostic test ...detection test for CRC. To illus- trate the performance of the test in terms of predicting presence of CRC, a ...
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Investigation of publication bias in meta-analyses of diagnostic test accuracy: a meta-epidemiological study
... the test of Begg [11], and the test of Egger [12] are probably most ...The test of Begg assesses if there is a sig- nificant correlation between the ranks of the effect esti- mates and the ranks of ...
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The diagnostic test accuracy of rectal examination for prostate cancer diagnosis in symptomatic patients : a systematic review
... of diagnostic test accuracy as they tend to overestimate diagnostic ...reference test is invasive, it is nonetheless a limitation of the ...
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Performance of methods for meta analysis of diagnostic test accuracy with few studies or sparse data
... non-Cochrane diagnostic test accuracy review authors suggest that small meta-analyses or sparse data often occur and pose a challenge to these data hungry hierarchical ...of diagnostic ...
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Modelling multiple thresholds in meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy studies
... Systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy (DTA) studies give an overview of the performance of a diag- nostic test, e.g. based on a biomarker or a questionnaire. Meta-analysis of DTA ...
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Challenges of rapid reviews for diagnostic test accuracy questions: a protocol for an international survey and expert consultation
... Systematic reviews are currently the most widely used for searching, assessing and synthesising healthcare evi- dence [7]. However, the development of standard sys- tematic reviews requires considerable time and ...
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Diagnostic tools for alzheimer's disease dementia and other dementias: an overview of diagnostic test accuracy (DTA) systematic reviews
... of diagnostic reviews reported only in abstract form, which had to be excluded because of the absence of information to allow for a full assess- ment of their ...
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Accuracy of clinical stroke scores for distinguishing stroke subtypes in resource poor settings: A systematic review of diagnostic test accuracy.
... Papers selected for review were assessed independently for methodological validity prior to inclusion in the review using the Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies (QUADAS) criteria. ...
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Defining the clinical pathway in cochrane diagnostic test accuracy reviews
... the test and can help us to understand whether the test of interest – the index test – is proposed as a triage test, an add-on test, or a replacement for an existing test or ...
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Molecular Tools for Diagnosis of Visceral Leishmaniasis: Systematic Review and Meta Analysis of Diagnostic Test Accuracy
... reference test bias is an important issue in diagnostic-accuracy ...new test when comparing it to current methods that have low sensitivity and high specificity, such as microscopy of bone ...
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Tourniquet Test for Dengue Diagnosis: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Diagnostic Test Accuracy.
... considering variability within-study and between-study. The output results are random effects estimates of the mean sensitivity and specificity with corresponding 95% CI. The weighing con- sidered the inverse of the ...
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Estimating the accuracy of muscle response testing: two randomised order blinded studies
... of diagnostic test accuracy using MRT to detect lies are ...MRT test was one that resulted in a subjective weakening of the muscle following a lie, and a true negative was one that did not ...
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Estimating the accuracy of muscle response testing: Two randomised-order blinded studies
... of diagnostic test accuracy using MRT to detect lies are ...MRT test was one that resulted in a subjective weakening of the muscle following a lie, and a true negative was one that did not ...
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A distantly supervised dataset for automated data extraction from diagnostic studies
... index test, target condition, and ref- erence standard from articles has the potential to decrease the cost of conducting systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy, but rele- vant ...
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Estimates of sensitivity and specificity can be biased when reporting the results of the second test in a screening trial conducted in series
... single test design, all participants are screened with one ...screening test is positive, the participant undergoes a reference test, which is used to make the ...further diagnostic process, ...
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Study on the accuracy of milk amyloid A test and other diagnostic methods for identification of milk quality
... incubation in the dark condition at room temperature for 30 min, 50 μL of stop solution was added to each well and absorbance was read at 450 nm. For interpretation of results, mean absorbance for each sample and ...
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