Meta-analyses of studies of the diagnostic accuracy of laboratory tests: a review of the concepts and methods

EC Vamvakas - Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine, 1998 - search.proquest.com
… Study Selection—English language literature, 1980 to present, pertaining to the rationale,
objectives, and interpretation of meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials, and meta-analyses …

[HTML][HTML] The diagnostic accuracy of procalcitonin for bacteraemia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

SH Hoeboer, PJ van der Geest, D Nieboer… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2015 - Elsevier
… results subgroup analyses were performed. First, we calculated the diagnostic accuracy in
specific … We calculated the diagnostic accuracy in studies comparing bacteraemia with non-…

Diagnostic accuracy of ultrasound in detecting the severity of abnormally invasive placentation: a systematic review and metaanalysis

G Pagani, G Cali, G Acharya, IT Trisch… - Acta obstetricia et …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
diagnostic accuracy in detecting AIP 7. The aim of this systematic review was to elucidate the
overall diagnostic accuracy … of association and the predictive accuracy of each ultrasound …

Diagnostic accuracy of clinical tests of the hip: a systematic review with meta-analysis

MP Reiman, AP Goode, EJ Hegedus… - British journal of sports …, 2013 - bjsm.bmj.com
diagnostic accuracy and subsequent quality of such tests. To our knowledge, a comprehensive
review of the diagnostic accuracymeta-analysis of the literature regarding the diagnostic

Meta-analysis of the literature on diagnostic accuracy of SPECT in parkinsonian syndromes

AMM Vlaar, MJPG van Kroonenburgh, AGH Kessels… - BMC neurology, 2007 - Springer
meta-analysis do show loss of dopamine-receptor binding. Studies which used IBZM scored
higher accuracy … Some studies, excluded for this meta-analysis, found excellent accuracy for …

Elastography for the diagnosis of severity of fibrosis in chronic liver disease: a meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy

EA Tsochatzis, KS Gurusamy, S Ntaoula… - Journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
… In our meta-analysis, we evaluated the diagnostic accuracy of transient elastography in the
staging of liver fibrosis, as reported in 40 studies. Although three meta-analyses have already …

Diagnostic accuracy of serological tests for covid-19: systematic review and meta-analysis

ML Bastos, G Tavaziva, SK Abidi, JR Campbell… - bmj, 2020 - bmj.com
… In this systematic review and meta-analysis, existing evidence on the diagnostic
accuracy of serological tests for covid-19 was found to be characterised by high risks of bias, …

Meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy assessment studies with varying number of thresholds

V Dukic, C Gatsonis - Biometrics, 2003 - academic.oup.com
… a new meta-analytic method to evaluate test accuracy and … a collection of studies evaluating
diagnostic tests, even when test … goals of a meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy studies is to …

Noninvasive diagnosis of adenomyosis: a structured review and meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy in imaging

T Tellum, S Nygaard, M Lieng - Journal of minimally invasive gynecology, 2020 - Elsevier
… The overall diagnostic accuracy used in this meta-analysis was mostly reported as pooled …
might result in an overestimation of the diagnostic accuracy of both MRI and TVUS. Overfitting …

Diagnostic accuracy of tests for lymph node status in primary cervical cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis

TJ Selman, C Mann, J Zamora, TL Appleyard, K Khan - Cmaj, 2008 - Can Med Assoc
… We sought to systematically review the diagnostic accuracy … tomography to evaluate the
accuracy of each index test in … meta-analysis of accuracy indices, and we performed meta-…