BACKGROUND Recently anti-CCP testing has become popular in the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, the inadequate reporting of the relevant diagnostic studies may overestimate and bias the results, directing scientists into making false decisions. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the reporting quality of studies used anti-CCP2 for the diagnosis of RA and to explore the ...

Diagnostic accuracy studies are, like other clinical studies, at risk of bias due to shortcomings in design and conduct, the results a diagnostic study may not apply patient groups settings. Readers reports need be informed about sufficient detail judge trustworthiness applicability findings. The STARD statement (Standards for Reporting Accuracy Studies) was developed improve completeness trans...

OBJECTIVES Diagnostic nuclear medicine is being increasingly employed in clinical practice with the advent of new technologies and radiopharmaceuticals. The report of the prevalence of a certain disease is important for assessing the quality of that article. Therefore, this study was performed to evaluate the quality of published nuclear medicine articles and determine the frequency of reportin...

Abstract Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the most common cause of visual disorder in aged people and may lead to complete blindness with ageing. The major clinical feature AMD presence cholesterol enriched deposits underneath retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cells. can induce oxidative stress inflammation. It has been suggested that abnormal homeostasis contributes pathogenesis AMD. H...

Numerous severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) rapid serological tests have been developed, but their accuracy has usually assessed using very few samples, and rigorous comparisons between these are scarce. In this study, we evaluated compared 10 commercially available SARS-CoV-2 the STARD (Standards for Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies) methodology.

Objective(s): Diagnostic nuclear medicine is being increasingly employed in clinical practice with the advent of new technologies and radiopharmaceuticals. The report of the prevalence of a certain disease is important for assessing the quality of that article. Therefore, this study was performed to evaluate the quality of published nuclear medicine articles and determine the frequency of repor...

Diagnostic accuracy studies are fundamental for the assessment of diagnostic tests. Researchers need to understand implications their chosen design, opting comparative designs where possible. should analyse test using appropriate methods, acknowledging uncertainty results and avoiding overstating conclusions ignoring clinical situation which inform trade-off between sensitivity specificity. Tes...

Diagnostic accuracy relates to the ability of a test to discriminate between the target condition and health. This discriminative potential can be quantified by the measures of diagnostic accuracy such as sensitivity and specificity, predictive values, likelihood ratios, the area under the ROC curve, Youden's index and diagnostic odds ratio. Different measures of diagnostic accuracy relate to t...