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From: Has the quality of reporting improved since it became mandatory to use the Standards for Reporting Diagnostic Accuracy?

Fig. 2

Graph shows results of comparison of overall adherence (%) to 29 STARD 2015 checklist items and reporting of individual items between studies published in 2015, with STARD being recommended, and those published in 2019, with STARD being mandatory. Studies published in 2019 adhered in general to more items of the STARD 2015 checklist. However, items 12b (prespecified definition of test positivity cutoffs of the reference standard), 14 (methods for estimating diagnostic accuracy measures), 15 and 16 (handling of missing and indeterminate results) and item 22 (time interval between tests) were more often reported in 2015. When referring to the split items 10, 12, 13 and 21, the graph reveals that information about the index test (a items) was more frequently reported than for the reference standard (b items). STARD, Standards for Reporting Diagnostic Accuracy

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