Table 2.

Criteria for test accuracy studies

Authors	Year	Reference Standard used	Colposcopy done on	Colposcopists blinded to VIA results	Disease threshold
Basu et al.[6]	2003	Histology/ colposcopy*	All women	No	CIN II+
Sankaranarayanan et al.[18]	2003	Histology/ colposcopy*	All women	Yes	CIN II+
Sankaranarayanan et al. [19]	2004	Histology/ colposcopy*	All women	Yes	HSIL
Sankaranarayanan et al.[20]	2004	Histology/ colposcopy*	All women	Yes	HSIL
Kamal et al. [21]	2007	Colposcopy	All women	Yes	Colposcopy +
Gravitt et al.[24]	2010	Histology	VIA +	No	CIN II+
Deodhar et al.[25]	2012	Histology	VIA +	No	CIN II+
Satyanarayana et al.[28]	2014	Histology	VIA +	No	CIN II+
Jeronimo et al.[27]	2014	Histology	VIA +	No	CIN II+
Basu et al.[29]	2015	Histology/ colposcopy*	VIA +	No	CIN II+

^*Colposcopy results were used as the final diagnosis where histology was not available.