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. 2024 Sep 3;129(11):1682–1695. doi: 10.1007/s11547-024-01882-z

Table 6.

Risk of bias, evaluation of quality related to included studies (QUADAS-2)

Author and year of publication Risk of bias Applicability concerns
Patient selection Index test Reference standard Flow and timing Patient selection Index test Reference standard
Estrela et al., 2008 [50] V V V ? V V V
Estrela et al., 2009 [43] V V V ? V V V
Moura et al., 2009 [44] V V ? X V X V
Weissman et al., 2015 [45] V ? V ? V X ?
Kanagasingam et al., 2017 [39] ? V V V ? X V
Kanagasingam et al., 2017 [40] ? V V V ? X V
Nardi et al., 2017 [47] V V V V V V V
Nardi et al., 2018 [48] V V V V V V V
Nardi et al., 2020 [49] V V V ? V V V
Jang et al., 2020 [46] V V V V V ? V
Bosoni et al., 2021 [42] V V V V V X V
Li et al., 2022 [41] V V ? V V X X

V Low Risk; X High Risk; ? Unclear Risk