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. 2010 Mar 31;340:c1269. doi: 10.1136/bmj.c1269

Table 1.

 Results of risk of bias assessment per study according to items on checklist for the quality assessment of diagnostic accuracy studies20*

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Bafandeh 2008† + + + + + + + ? ? + +
Barwick 2004 ? + ? + + + ?
Bjerregaard 2007 + + + + ? ? + +
Bellentani 1990 + + + + + ? ? + ?
Brewster 1994 ? + + + + + ? ? +
Castiglione 1987 + + + + ? ? +
Charalambopoulos 2000 ? ? + ? + + + ? + + +
Chohan 2005 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? + + +
Debnath 2002 ? + ? + ? ? ? + + ?
Eccersley 2003 ? + + + ? + + +
Ellis 2005 + ? + + + ? ? +
Falkson 1993 ? + ? + + ? ? + +
Farrands 1985 ? ? + ? + ? ? + +
Flashman 2004 ? + ? + ? ? ? ? + +
Fijten 1995 + ? ? + + ? ? + ?
Goulston 1980 ? + + ? ? ? ? + ?
Jeanson 1994 ? ? ? ? ? + + ? ? + +
Kimmig 1989 ? + + ? + + + ? ? + ?
Leicester 1983 ? ? + ? ? ? + +
Levi 2007 ? ? + ? + + + + + ? ?
Mahon 2002 ? + + ? ? ? + +
Mant 1989 + + + + + ? ? ?
Marderstein 2008† + ? + + ? + + ? + + +
Metcalf 1996† + + + + + + + + + +
Miyoshi 2000† ? + + + + + + + + + +
Niv 1995† + + ? + + + + + +
Norrelund 1996 + ? + + + ? ? +
Panzuto 2003 + + + + + +
Pepin 2002 ? + ? ?
Pye 1989 ? ? + ? + ? ? + ?
Pye 1990 + ? + + + ? ? ? +
Robertson 2006 ? + + ? + ? ? ? + ?
Selvachandran 2002 + + + + ? ? ? ? ? + +
Shastri 2008† ? + + + + + + + + + +
Sieg 1998† ? + + + ? + ? + + + +
Sieg 1999† ? + + + + + + + + + +
Smith 2006 ? + + + + + + ? ? +
Steine 1994† ? + + + + + + + + +
Tan 2002† + + + + + + + ? + + ?
Tate 1988 ? + + ? + + + ? + + ?
Tate 1989 + ? + ? + ? ? +
Tate 1990 ? + + ? + + + ? + +
Thomas 1992 ? + + ? + ? ? + +
Thompson 2007† + ? + + + + ? + + +
Thompson 2008† + ? + + + + ? + + +
Wauters 2000 + + + + ? ? ? ? +
Zarchy 1991 ? + + + + + ? ? + ?
Total 18 30 40 28 20 29 18 7 19 38 30

+=no bias; −=potential bias; ?=bias unclear.

*1=valid selection, representative patients, 2=blinded to reference standard, 3=index test not part of reference standard, 4=clinical data available as normal, 5=adequate reference test, 6=all/random selection received reference test, 7=all received same test, 8= blinded to index test, 9=target condition did not change between tests, 10=no withdrawal, 11=no missing/uninterpretable data (see appendix B on bmj.com for full details of scoring).

†Study received positive assessment on at least eight of 11 quality items.