Table I.
Methodological quality of included studies as per QUADAS-2 assessment
| Study | Risk of bias | Applicability concerns | |||||
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| Patient selection | Index test | Reference standard | Flow & timing | Patient selection | Index test | Reference standard | |
| Kok et al13, 1996 |
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? | ? |
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| Chang et al14, 1999 | ? |
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? |
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| Nieminen et al15, 2002 |
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? | ? |
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| de Veld et al16, 2004 | ? |
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| Dreiseitl et al9, 2009 |
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| Lucidarme et al17, 2010 | ? |
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? |
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| Fink et al18, 2017 |
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? |
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? | ? |
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| Mori et al8, 2018 |
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| Walker et al19, 2019 |
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? |
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| Wang et al20, 2019 |
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| Su et al21, 2019 |
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? |
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| Li et al22, 2019 | ? |
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| Hollon et al23, 2020 |
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? |
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| Wang et al24, 2020 |
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? |
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| Repici et al25, 2020 |
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? |
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| Gong et al26, 2020 |
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? |
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| Wang et al27, 2020 |
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? |
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| Liu et al28, 2020 |
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? |
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low risk; high risk; ? unclear risk, QUADAS-2, quality assessment of diagnostic accuracy studies - 2