Reporting of measures of accuracy in systematic reviews of diagnostic literature.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There are a variety of ways in which accuracy of clinical tests can be summarised in systematic reviews. Variation in reporting of summary measures has only been assessed in a small survey restricted to meta-analyses of screening studies found in a single database. Therefore, we performed this study to assess the measures of accuracy used for reporting results of primary studies as well as their meta-analysis in systematic reviews of test accuracy studies.

Methods

Relevant reviews on test accuracy were selected from the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (1994-2000), which electronically searches seven bibliographic databases and manually searches key resources. The structured abstracts of these reviews were screened and information on accuracy meas

SUBMITTER: Honest H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC100326 | biostudies-literature | 2002

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature