Issue Special Issue 1/2012
Content (13 Articles)
Open Access
Editorials
Methods Guide for Authors of Systematic Reviews of Medical Tests: A Collaboration Between the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Journal of General Internal Medicine
Gerald W. Smetana, Craig A. Umscheid, Stephanie Chang, David B. Matchar
Open Access
Health Policy
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Methods Guide for Medical Test Reviews
David B. Matchar
Open Access
Original Research
Chapter 2: Medical Tests Guidance (2) Developing the Topic and Structuring Systematic Reviews of Medical Tests: Utility of PICOTS, Analytic Frameworks, Decision Trees, and Other Frameworks
David Samson, Karen M. Schoelles
Open Access
Reviews
Chapter 3: Choosing the Important Outcomes for a Systematic Review of a Medical Test
Jodi B. Segal
Open Access
Original Research
Chapter 4: Effective Search Strategies for Systematic Reviews of Medical Tests
Rose Relevo
Open Access
Original Research
Chapter 5: Assessing Risk of Bias as a Domain of Quality in Medical Test Studies
P. Lina Santaguida, Crystal M. Riley, David B. Matchar
Open Access
Reviews
Chapter 6: Assessing Applicability of Medical Test Studies in Systematic Reviews
K. E. Hartmann, D. B. Matchar, S. Chang
Open Access
Original Research
Chapter 7: Grading a Body of Evidence on Diagnostic Tests
Sonal Singh, Stephanie M. Chang, David B. Matchar, Eric B. Bass
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Original Research
Chapter 8: Meta-analysis of Test Performance When There is a “Gold Standard”
Thomas A. Trikalinos, Cynthia M. Balion, Craig I. Coleman, Lauren Griffith, Pasqualina L. Santaguida, Ben Vandermeer, Rongwei Fu
Open Access
Original Research
Chapter 9: Options for Summarizing Medical Test Performance in the Absence of a “Gold Standard”
Thomas A. Trikalinos, Cynthia M. Balion
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Original Research
Chapter 10: Deciding Whether to Complement a Systematic Review of Medical Tests with Decision Modeling
Thomas A. Trikalinos, Shalini Kulasingam, William F. Lawrence
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Original Research
Chapter 11: Challenges in and Principles for Conducting Systematic Reviews of Genetic Tests used as Predictive Indicators
Daniel E. Jonas, Timothy J. Wilt, Brent C. Taylor, Tania M. Wilkins, David B. Matchar
Open Access
Reviews
Chapter 12: Systematic Review of Prognostic Tests
Thomas S. Rector, Brent C. Taylor, Timothy J. Wilt