quality assessment of studies of diagnostic accuracy
The development of QUADAS: a tool for the quality assessment of studies of diagnostic accuracy included in systematic reviews
... Quality assessment is as important in systematic reviews of diagnostic accuracy studies as it is in any other ...However, diagnostic accuracy studies have several ...
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The development of QUADAS : a tool for the quality assessment of studies of diagnostic accuracy included in systematic reviews
... the quality assessment of studies of diagnostic ...of studies of diagnostic ...a quality score into QUADAS. Quality scores are only necessary if the reviewer wants ...
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Evaluation of QUADAS, a tool for the quality assessment of diagnostic accuracy studies
... We do not feel that major modifications to the content of QUADAS itself, in terms of items included, are necessary. However, the evaluation highlighted particular difficulties in scoring the items on uninterpretable ...
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Meta analysis of the utility of culture, biopsy, and direct KOH examination for the diagnosis of onychomycosis
... The diagnostic tests for this disease are few and ...the diagnostic validity, performance, and accuracy of culture, nail clipping with Periodic Acid-Schiff – PAS- staining (biopsy), and direct ...
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Assessing the quality of studies on the diagnostic accuracy of tumor markers
... for quality assessment in reviews and metaanalyses [7, ...good/poor quality studies is ...discriminate studies with biased results underscores the need for more detailed guidance to ...
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Magnetic resonance myocardial perfusion imaging in the diagnosis of functionally significant obstructive coronary artery disease: a systematic review protocol
... logical quality of included studies by using the pub- lished QUADAS-2 (the Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy studies) tool ...methodological quality will be ...
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Hysterosalpingosonography for diagnosing tubal occlusion in subfertile women: a systematic review protocol
... Two reviewers will independently assess the risk of bias and applicability concerns using a checklist derived from the Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Study 2 (QUADAS-2) tool [25] ...
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Quality assessment of diagnostic before-after studies: development of methodology in the context of a systematic review
... tional studies of prevalent cases to be approximately ...existing quality assessment tool for diag- nostic before-after ...validated quality assessment tool for diagnostic ...
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Presepsin as a diagnostic marker for sepsis: evidence from a bivariate meta-analysis
... For studies containing several groups or dif- ferent backgrounds, each one was treated as a single ...The quality of the selected studies was assessed using the Quality Assessment of ...
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Diagnostic accuracy of droplet digital PCR for detection of EGFR T790M mutation in circulating tumor DNA
... of quality assessment were listed in Table ...two studies showed the potential risk due to different detection strategies being used for T790M mutation in biopsy samples, Table 1 Baseline ...
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Incorporating quality assessments of primary studies in the conclusions of diagnostic accuracy reviews: a cross-sectional study
... methodological quality of included studies, most often using the original QUADAS tool (n = 44, ...68%). Quality assessment was mentioned in 28 abstracts (43%); with a majority (n = 21) ...
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No role for quality scores in systematic reviews of diagnostic accuracy studies
... to diagnostic accu- racy studies much of these discussions also apply to this topic ...with quality scores has used different scales, which not only weighted items differently but also included dif- ...
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A systematic review of methods to diagnose oral dryness and salivary gland function
... based quality assessment tool to be used in sys- tematic reviews of diagnostic accuracy ...incorporate quality scores to assess the level of ...of quality scores into the results ...
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How does study quality affect the results of a diagnostic meta-analysis?
... summary quality scores in systematic reviews has been widely debated elsewhere ...inform quality- based analyses, may mask important effects of individual quality components ...by studies ...
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An assessment of the characteristics and quality of diagnostic accuracy studies for positron emission tomography conducted in Japan: a systematic review
... and quality of diagnostic accuracy studies of PET conducted in ...Japanese studies involving PET were identified, half of them were not indexed in ...several studies, this could ...
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The quality of reporting of primary test accuracy studies in obstetrics and gynaecology: application of the STARD criteria
... accuracy studies. This list was designed to help readers judge the studies and to act as a study design tool for ...of diagnostic accuracy ...the assessment of the study ...
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Methodology and reporting of diagnostic accuracy studies of automated perimetry in glaucoma: evaluation using a standardised approach
... complementary assessment of both methodological quality and quality of ...the quality of reporting of the diagnostic accuracy of perimetric tests in glaucoma is sub-optimal and ...
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Non invasive fetal RHD genotyping tests : a systematic review of the quality of reporting of diagnostic accuracy in published studies
... Some studies were excluded from this meta-analysis on the basis of sample numbers, but aspects such as study quality were not ...Because assessment of the quality of reporting of ...
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Reproducibility of the STARD checklist: an instrument to assess the quality of reporting of diagnostic accuracy studies
... nostic accuracy studies published in 2000 in general med- ical journals and discipline specific ...the quality of reporting was carried out among all reviewers, no additional criteria were defined ...
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Confusion assessment method: a systematic review and meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy
... the studies which included conditions related to mental disorders (ie, demen- tia, psychosis) which mimic delirium as an “appropriate inclusion” because we believe a good scale can discriminate between people who ...
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