Table 3.
QUADAS-2 results
| Author (year) | Risk of bias | Applicability concerns | |||||
| Patient selection | Index test | Reference standard | Flow and timing | Patient selection | Index test | Reference standard | |
| Within-patient case-control studies | |||||||
| Yeom et al 27 (2008) |
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| North et al 32 (1996) |
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| Diagnostic cohort studies | |||||||
| Sasso et al 31 (2005) |
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| Schutz et al 28 (1973) | ? |
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? |
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| Dooley et al 29 (1988) |
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| Williams et al 30 (2015) |
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? |
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, low risk/concern;
, high risk/concern; ?, unclear risk/concern.