Reporting Weaknesses in Conference Abstracts of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies in Ophthalmology.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Conference abstracts present information that helps clinicians and researchers to decide whether to attend a presentation. They also provide a source of unpublished research that could potentially be included in systematic reviews. We systematically assessed whether conference abstracts of studies that evaluated the accuracy of a diagnostic test were sufficiently informative.

Observations

We identified all abstracts describing work presented at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. Abstracts were eligible if they included a measure of diagnostic accuracy, such as sensitivity, specificity, or likelihood ratios. Two independent reviewers evaluated each abstract using a list of 21 items, selected from published guidance

SUBMITTER: Korevaar DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5031079 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature