Preferred Reporting Items for a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Diagnostic Test Accuracy Studies

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2009 • 26,132 citations

Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement

2009 • 20,118 citations

QUADAS-2: A Revised Tool for the Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies

2011 • 10,655 citations

The PRISMA statement for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses of studies that evaluate health care interventions: explanation and elaboration

2009 • 9,138 citations

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2005 • 2,849 citations

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Empirical Evidence of Design-Related Bias in Studies of Diagnostic Tests

1999 • 1,799 citations

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

2016 • 1,680 citations

ROBIS: A new tool to assess risk of bias in systematic reviews was developed

2015 • 1,567 citations

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2011 • 1,549 citations

A hierarchical regression approach to meta‐analysis of diagnostic test accuracy evaluations

2001 • 1,349 citations

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2014 • 1,168 citations

Guidance for Developers of Health Research Reporting Guidelines

2010 • 1,127 citations

Seventy-Five Trials and Eleven Systematic Reviews a Day: How Will We Ever Keep Up?

2010 • 1,059 citations

STARD 2015: An Updated List of Essential Items for Reporting Diagnostic Accuracy Studies

2015 • 684 citations

PRISMA for Abstracts: Reporting Systematic Reviews in Journal and Conference Abstracts

2013 • 603 citations

Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Diagnostic Test Accuracy

2023 • 483 citations

Delphi methodology in health research: how to do it?

2015 • 481 citations

Meta-analytic methods for diagnostic test accuracy

1995 • 471 citations

Investigation of publication bias in meta-analyses of diagnostic test accuracy: a meta-epidemiological study

2014 • 337 citations

Association of Study Quality with Completeness of Reporting: Have Completeness of Reporting and Quality of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses in Major Radiology Journals Changed Since Publication of the PRISMA Statement?

2013 • 142 citations

Recommendations for reporting of systematic reviews and meta-analyses of diagnostic test accuracy: a systematic review

2017 • 125 citations

Pitfalls of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses in Imaging Research

2015 • 88 citations

The assessment of the quality of reporting of meta-analyses in diagnostic research: a systematic review

2011 • 65 citations

STARD for Abstracts: essential items for reporting diagnostic accuracy studies in journal or conference abstracts

2017 • 62 citations

Overinterpretation of Research Findings: Evidence of “Spin” in Systematic Reviews of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies

2017 • 62 citations

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2020 • 61 citations

Meta-Analyses of Diagnostic Accuracy in Imaging Journals: Analysis of Pooling Techniques and Their Effect on Summary Estimates of Diagnostic Accuracy

2016 • 54 citations

Uptake of newer methodological developments and the deployment of meta-analysis in diagnostic test research: a systematic review

2011 • 45 citations

Treatment of multiple test readers in diagnostic accuracy systematic reviews-meta-analyses of imaging studies

2017 • 41 citations

Systematic overview finds variation in approaches to investigating and reporting on sources of heterogeneity in systematic reviews of diagnostic studies

2014 • 30 citations

Assessing variability in results in systematic reviews of diagnostic studies

2016 • 28 citations

Infrequent and incomplete registration of test accuracy studies: analysis of recent study reports

2014 • 27 citations

The Moses–Littenberg meta-analytical method generates systematic differences in test accuracy compared to hierarchical meta-analytical models

2016 • 20 citations

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2014 • 18 citations

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2016 • 17 citations

Statistical models for quantifying diagnostic accuracy with multiple lesions per patient

2008 • 15 citations