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## Objectives: To introduce guidelines for the conduct, reporting, and critical appraisal of meta-analyses evaluating diagnostic tests and to apply these guidelines to recently published meta-analyses of diagnostic tests. ## Data sources: Based on current concepts of how to assess diagnostic tests and conduct meta-analyses. they are applied to all meta-analyses evaluating diagnostic tests published in english-language journals from january 1990 through december 1991, identified through medline searching and by experts in the field. ## Study selection: Meta-analyses were included if at least two of three independent readers regarded their main purpose as the evaluation of diagnostic tests against a concurrent reference standard. ## Data extraction: By three independent readers on the extent to which meta-analyses fulfilled each guideline, with consensus defined as agreement by at least two readers. ## Data synthesis: The guidelines are concerned with determining the objective of the meta-analysis, identifying the relevant literature and extracting the data, estimating diagnostic accuracy, and identifying the extent to which variability is explained by study design characteristics an

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Author

Les Irwig

Publisher

American College of Physicians

Published

1994

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)