[PDF] Top 20 Meta-DiSc: a software for meta-analysis of test accuracy data

... Meta-DiSc software was created in Microsoft Visual Basic 6, and some mathematical routines have been linked from the NAG C mathematical library ...The software is distributed as a single file, ... See full document

... and Meta-DiSc 1.4 software were used for all statistical ...the accuracy of the diagnostic test ...the meta-regression reason. Deeks’ regression test and Spearman’s ... See full document

... the meta-analysis and pooled results are estimated using standard methods for each ...observed data with no imputation ...and test accuracy, and levels of heterogeneity between ... See full document

... diagnostic accuracy of transvaginal sonogra- phy in a dichotomous way, they possibly have overesti- mated the performance of this test ...conventional meta-analysis [33]. With the individual ... See full document

... that data supporting routine use of the tourni- quet test is, at best, relatively poor, however it is important to consider that the quality of the evi- dence is low due to imprecision and inconsistency ... See full document

... performed meta-analysis with the bivariate random effects model to calculate the sensitivity and spe- ci fi city of the combined diagnostic odds ratio (DOR) and EUS performance from diagnostic test ... See full document

... bivariate meta-analysis model, however, one threshold value per study must be selected, and the additional information is ...DTA meta-analysis utilise data on a single sensitivity and ... See full document

... such data show a negative correlation between sensitivity and specificity because of explicit or implicit variations in test-thresholds [1,7], as well as contain a certain amount of heterogeneity ...the ... See full document

... sufficient data for the reconstruction of a diagnostic two-by-two table, and studies which based test positivity on the combination of various other tests jointly with tests for nitrites and/or leukocyte ... See full document

... sensitivity analysis: it shows, under the assumptions made, how vulnerable the original meta-analysis conclusions are to the missing threshold ...summary meta-analysis es- timates; less ... See full document

... of test under evaluation and the total number of studies in- cluded in the ...meta-analyses. Data were then collected on the primary studies within one meta-analysis for each included ... See full document

... a meta-analysis to reflect ...between software packages because of differences in obtaining starting values and model fitting ...the software most often used to fit HSROC models in frequentist ... See full document

... various test meth- odologies; test kits are available from many ...a test specificity of ≥85% and publication in the last 20 ...each test technology varied from ...used. Test ... See full document

... diagnostic test accuracy of LPAs for RIF resistance, INH resistance and ...including accuracy for ...included data on Hain V2 and Nipro, which have not previously been reviewed ...in ... See full document

... use, meta-analysis software must be easy to ...Dedicated meta-analysis programs such as MIX, Comprehensive Meta-analysis, and MetaDiSc are appealing due to their small ... See full document

... in accuracy mea- sures between the 12 ...possible accuracy measures (see [16] for a review and critique) it might seem attractive to focus on a single agreed ...any accuracy indicator can be ... See full document

... sensitivity analysis for assessing the potential impact of missing ...A test of the presence of bias could be derived from this method, based on the estimated number of missing ... See full document

... Indeed, meta- analysts often must make subjective decisions in analytic practice among several equally defensible ...recent meta-analysis by Ferguson [25] inspects the partial cor- relation between ... See full document

... and meta-analysis, meta-analysis, or network meta-analysis); publication date; number of databases sourced and searched; last literature search; type of in- cluded primary ... See full document

... Diagnostic Accuracy Studies-2 ...comparative accuracy in predicting outcomes will be reported as differences in areas under receiver operating characteristic curves along with 95% confidence ...IPD ... See full document