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November 1, 2016BMJ OpenOpen Access

STARD 2015 guidelines for reporting diagnostic accuracy studies: explanation and elaboration

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JCJérémie F. CohenDKDaniël A. KorevaarDADouglas G. Altman

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Overview

Reporting guideline details standardized quality criteria for diagnostic accuracy studies, highlighting transparent reporting to improve clinical applicability.

Key Points

  • Explain and elaborate on the updated STARD 2015 checklist items to improve the transparency and completeness of diagnostic accuracy study reports.
  • Updated the Standards for Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies (STARD) checklist to 30 essential items.
  • Assembled explicit rationale and commented examples of optimal reporting for each checklist item across study design, execution, and analysis.
  • Presents the revised 30-item STARD 2015 checklist to help readers evaluate the risk of bias and applicability of diagnostic accuracy results.
  • Outlines reporting requirements across all manuscript sections, detailing specific descriptions needed for index tests, reference standards, and participant flow.

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Cohen et al. (2016) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d74ebff07a12db70b8a96ehttps://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012799
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