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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
12
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-12-16
pubmed:abstractText
More and more systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy studies are being published, but they can be methodologically challenging. In this paper, the authors present some of the recent developments in the methodology for conducting systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy studies. Restrictive electronic search filters are discouraged, as is the use of summary quality scores. Methods for meta-analysis should take into account the paired nature of the estimates and their dependence on threshold. Authors of these reviews are advised to use the hierarchical summary receiver-operating characteristic or the bivariate model for the data analysis. Challenges that remain are the poor reporting of original diagnostic test accuracy studies and difficulties with the interpretation of the results of diagnostic test accuracy research.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
1539-3704
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
16
pubmed:volume
149
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
889-97
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-5-4
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy.
pubmed:affiliation
Dutch Cochrane Centre and Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural