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 |