Table 4.

Key guidelines and tools for aiding in the reporting of diagnostic or prognostic studies.

Guideline	Applicability	Examples of reporting factors covered
STARD	Reports of diagnostic accuracy studies	Guidelines for documenting participants, statistical analysis, results, and discussions
QUADAS	Reports of diagnostic studies based on systematic reviews	Conceived as an evaluation tool in which items and scores for the assessment of the quality of reporting of reference standards, sample selection, and bias in interpretations
QUOROM	Reports of meta‐analyses of randomized controlled trials	Recommendations on reporting searching methodology, synthesis of quantitative analysis, analysis flow, and summary of findings
MOOSE	Reports of meta‐analyses in observational studies	Checklist of key reporting factors, e.g., search strategies, methodology reporting, provision of appropriate graphical information, publication bias, and future work