Meta-Analysis of Diagnostic Test Accuracy

Meta-analysis of Diagnostic Test Accuracy Studies

Differential Diagnosis of Microcytic Anemia, Thalassemia or Iron Deficiency Anemia: A Diagnostic Test Accuracy Meta-Analysis

We evaluated the most common indices to compare their sensitivity and specificity to introduce the most sensitive and specific index. We systematically searched five international indexing databases up to Dec 2018. For each index, we measured the diagnostic odds ratio (DOR), as well as summary ROC (SROC) curve which was used to compare the performance of each index. Deeks̕ tests of all discrimin...

Diagnostic test accuracy: methods for systematic review and meta-analysis.

Systematic reviews are carried out to provide an answer to a clinical question based on all available evidence (published and unpublished), to critically appraise the quality of studies, and account for and explain variations between the results of studies. The Joanna Briggs Institute specializes in providing methodological guidance for the conduct of systematic reviews and has developed method...

A meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy 1 Running head: A META-ANALYSIS OF DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY Bilingual Language Assessment: A Meta-analysis of Diagnostic Accuracy

Purpose: To describe quality indicators for appraising studies of diagnostic accuracy and to report a meta-analysis of measures for diagnosing language impairment (LI) in bilingual Spanish-English US children. Method: We searched electronically and by hand to locate peer-reviewed Englishlanguage publications meeting inclusion criteria; we rated quality features, calculated accuracy metrics and ...

Meta-Analysis of Diagnostic Accuracy with mada

The R-package mada is a tool for the meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy. In contrast to univariate meta-analysis, diagnostic meta-analysis requires bivariate models. An additional challenge is to provide a summary receiver operating characteristic curves that seek to integrate receiver operator characteristic curves of primary studies. The package implements the approach of Reitsma, Glas, Rut...