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Towards Complete and Accurate Reporting of Studies of Diagnostic Accuracy: The STARD Initiative1

Patrick M. Bossuyt, Johannes B. Reitsma, David E. Bruns, Constantine A Gatsonis, Paul P. Glasziou, Les M. Irwig, Jeroen G. Lijmer, David Moher, Drummond Rennie and Henrica C. W. de Vet

1 From the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 22700, 1100 DE Amsterdam, the Netherlands (P.M.B., J.B.R. J.G.L.); Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville (D.E.B.); Center for Statistical Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI (C.A.G.); Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Mayne Medical School, Herston, Australia (P.P.G.); Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Sydney, Australia (L.M.I.); Chalmers Research Group, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (D.M.); Institute for Health Policy Studies, UCSF School of Medicine, San Francisco, Calif, and Journal of the American Medical Association, Chicago, Ill (D.R.); and Institute for Research in Extramural Medicine, Free University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (H.C.W.d.V.). Received and accepted October 8, 2002. Financial support to convene the STARD Group was provided in part by Dutch Health Care Insurance Board, International Federation of Clinical Chemistry, Medical Research Council’s Health Services Research Collaboration, and Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam. Address correspondence to P.M.B. and J.B.R. (e-mail: stard@amc.uva.nl).



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  		Figure 1. STARD checklist for reporting diagnostic accuracy studies.

 


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  		Figure 2. Prototypical flow diagram of a study on diagnostic accuracy.

 




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