What Are Outcomes Studies

TITLE/ABSTRACT/ KEYWORDS 1 identify the articie as a study of diagnostic accuracy (recommend MeSH heading sensitivity and specificity).  

Pailicipants 3 The study population The inciusion and exciusion criteria, setting and iocations where the data were collected.  

Statistical metheds 12 Methods for calculating or comparing measures of diagnostic accuracy, and the statistical methods used to quantify uncertainty (e.g. 95% confidence intervals).  

Participants 14 When study was done, including beginning and ending dates of recruitment.  

Test results 17 Time interval from the index tests to the reference standard, and any treatment adminstered between.  

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