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. 2017 Aug 23;55(9):2765–2774. doi: 10.1128/JCM.00640-17

TABLE 2.

Quality assessmenta

Study Risk of bias based on internal validation
Applicability concerns based on external validation
Patient selection Index test Reference test Flow and timing Patient selection Index test Reference test
Wouthuyzen-Bakker et al. (24) LR LR HR LR LR LR LR
Pérez-Prieto et al. (20) LR LR HR LR LR LR LR
Bedenčič et al. (22) LR LR LR LR LR LR LR
Al-Mayahi et al. (3) LR ? HR LR HR LR LR
Tetreault et al. (21) LR HR LR LR ? LR LR
Burnett et al. (19) LR HR LR LR ? LR LR
Ghanem et al. (23) HR HR LR LR ? LR LR
a

Quality assessment of the included studies (3, 1924) using the QUADAS-2 tool for diagnostic studies (29). Specific details on internal and external validation are described in Materials and Methods. LR, low risk; HR, high risk; ?, unclear risk.