The STARD initiative
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Reporting the accuracy of diagnostic tests: the STARD initiative 10 years on.
Complete and accurate reporting of the design and implementation of studies is an essential component in guiding decisions in healthcare. Transparent reporting of studies that evaluate the accuracy of medical tests is recommended because such studies are more prone to bias than some other forms of research. Given that diagnostic accuracy is not a fixed property of tests, readers should know whe...
متن کاملTowards complete and accurate reporting of studies of diagnostic accuracy: the STARD initiative.
OBJECTIVE To improve the accuracy and completeness of reporting of studies of diagnostic accuracy in order to allow readers to assess the potential for bias in the study and to evaluate its generalisability. METHODS The Standards for Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy (STARD) steering committee searched the literature to identify publications on the appropriate conduct and reporting of diagnost...
متن کاملSTARD-compliant article
Sepsis is a common condition in the emergency department that is associated with high mortality. Red blood cell distribution width (RDW) has been used as a simple prognosis predictor for patients with community-acquired pneumonia, gram-negative bacteremia, and severe sepsis or septic shock. To evaluate the performance of RDW to predict in-hospital mortality among septic patients, we conducted a...
متن کاملQUADAS and STARD: evaluating the quality of diagnostic accuracy studies.
OBJECTIVE To compare the performance of two approaches, one based on the Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies (QUADAS) and another on the Standards for Reporting Studies of Diagnostic Accuracy (STARD), in evaluating the quality of studies validating the OptiMal® rapid malaria diagnostic test. METHODS Articles validating the rapid test published until 2007 were searched in the Med...
متن کاملSTARD 13 ( star - related lipid transfer ( START ) domain containing 13 )
DLC2 was identified due to striking sequence homology to DLC1. It localizes to a small region of 13q12.3, which is a locus frequently deleted in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) as well as in other cancers. Physical mapping of DLC2 in human genome revealed that it is in close proximity to the BRCA2 locus and flanked by microsatellite markers D13S171 and D13S267. The human DLC2 gene spans a region...
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عنوان ژورنال: Evidence-Based Dentistry
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1462-0049,1476-5446
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ebd.6400183