The Development of QUADAS:A Tool for the Quality Assessment of Studies of Diagnostic Accuracy Included in Systematic Reviews

By WS Rutjes. 2007

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A unification of models for meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy studies. (2007, background): “…example, " spectrum bias, " in which the subjects included in a study are not representative of the patients who will receive the test in practice (Whiting and others, 2003), might be expected to affect test accuracy rather than threshold, and might therefore be most appropriately investigated…”
Early, Accurate Diagnosis and Early Intervention in Cerebral Palsy Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment (2017, unknown): “Qualitywas appraisedusingtheQualityAssessmentofDiagnosticAccuracyStudies (QUADAS) methodological rating checklist for systematic reviews of diagnostic accuracy.(19)”
Spontaneous brain microbleeds: systematic review, subgroup analyses and standards for study design and reporting. (2007, methodology): “We critically appraised studies against a customized checklist of ideal characteristics for a study of BMBs (Table 1), based on the principles of the Cochrane collaboration, QUality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies (QUADAS) (Whiting et al., 2003) and Standards for the Reporting of Diagnosti”
Biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease: academic, industry and regulatory perspectives (2010, unknown): “Also, the reporting of studies involving diagnostic biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease needs to follow strict quality criteria, such as the qu ality a ssessment of d iagnostic a ccuracy s tudies (QUADAS) criteri”
Performance of transient elastography for the staging of liver fibrosis: a meta-analysis. (2008, methodology): “Corpechot C Hepatology 2006 (14) x Effect of gender on FS in healthy subjects Kawamoto World J Gastroenterol 2006 (15) x Hepatectomy specimen, fibrotic area using NIH image Bosch J J Hepatol 2006 (16) x Kazemi F J Hepatol 2006 (17) x Liver cirrhosis patients only, assoc.”
SYRCLE’s risk of bias tool for animal studies (2014, methodology): “However, the same holds for the original QUADAS tool (to assess the quality of diagnostic accuracy studies) and the Cochrane RoB tool [8,16].”
Image-guided prostate biopsy using magnetic resonance imaging-derived targets: a systematic review. (2013, methodology): “The QUADAS checklist was used because it was specifically developed for the assessment of studies addressing diagnostic accuracy [8].”
Prevalence of Amyloid PET Positivity in Dementia Syndromes (2015, unknown): “APOE ε4 noncarrier 18 29 (15-50) 54 (30-77)”