Systematic reviews
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: We will include systematic reviews (SRs) in which the authors evaluate the DTA of one or more tests against a reference standard. We will only include DTA reviews with meta-analyses that include 10 or more primary studies and provide data to reconstruct 2*2 tables.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: We will exclude narrative reviews, genomic reviews, animal reviews, reviews that apply a language or quality restriction, reviews that assess the analytical validity of tests, and reviews that only evaluate other measures of diagnostic performance such as reproducibility and reliability.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Study characteristics to be estimated will include publication year (before 2003 or after 2004), impact factor of publication journal, country (high or middle/low income), type of language (English or not), sample size, healthcare setting (primary healthcare or not), funding source (industrial sponsorship or not), publication status (full-publication or not), and number of study centers (single center or multicenter). | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
Public ContactAkira Onishi
Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology
Outcome results
None listed