Table 4.

Results of heterogeneity and the pooled estimations excluding suspicious studies.

Study	Sensitivity (95%CI)	Heterogeneity		Specificity (95% CI)	Heterogeneity		AUC
		P	I2		P	I2
b = 1000	0.84(0.80, 0.87)	0.1271	32.9%	0.84(0.79, 0.88)	0.1483	30.4%	0.9085
Excluding Li's	0.83(0.79, 0.86)	0.1153	35.4%	0.85(0.80, 0.89)	0.2999	15.1%	0.9117
Excluding Zhao's	0.85(0.80, 0.87)	0.4180	2.3%	0.84(0.79, 0.88)	0.6377	0	0.9118

Note: AUC = area under the curve; CI = confidence interval.