Systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy in CMI

Cochrane diagnostic test accuracy reviews

In 1996, shortly after the founding of The Cochrane Collaboration, leading figures in test evaluation research established a Methods Group to focus on the relatively new and rapidly evolving methods for the systematic review of studies of diagnostic tests. Seven years later, the Collaboration decided it was time to develop a publication format and methodology for Diagnostic Test Accuracy (DTA) ...

Systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy for evidence-based diagnostic practice in Africa

© 2012. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS OpenJournals. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. In 2009, a debate started about whether there was enough evidence to change current guidelines, from presumptive malarial treatment of children under 5 years who present with fever, to testing these children before treating them.1,2 A major argument against this policy change...

Recommendations for reporting of systematic reviews and meta-analyses of diagnostic test accuracy: a systematic review

BACKGROUND This study is to perform a systematic review of existing guidance on quality of reporting and methodology for systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy (DTA) in order to compile a list of potential items that might be included in a reporting guideline for such reviews: Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses of Diagnostic Test Accuracy (PRISMA-DTA). ...

A methodological review of how heterogeneity has been examined in systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy.

OBJECTIVES To review how heterogeneity has been examined in systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy studies. DATA SOURCES Centre for Reviews and Dissemination's Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE). REVIEW METHODS Systematic reviews that evaluated a diagnostic or screening test by including studies that compared a test with a reference test were identified from DARE. Re...

How heterogeneity has been examined in systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy