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. 2018 Dec 4;2018(12):CD011901. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD011901.pub2

2. Investigations of sources of heterogeneity for studies of visual inspection for detection of BCC.

Test Datasets Lesions (BCCs) DOR
(95% CI)
Specificity at 80% sensitivity Sensitivity at 80% specificity Relative DOR
 (95% CI) P value
 (LR)a P value
 (Wald)b
Difference in‐person and image based
In‐person 8 7017
(1586)
11.9
(4.4 to 32.2)
64% 74% 0.45
(0.26 to 9.2)
0.88 0.62
Image 4 853
(156)
18.5
(4.3 to 80.6)
78% 79%
Prevalence
0% ‐ 25% 6 4643
(168)
50.5
(17.1 to 149)
94% 91% 9.7
(2.3 to 40.8)
0.002 0.002
> 25% 6 3227
(1574)
5.2
(2.3 to 11.7)
50% 60%

BCC ‐ basal cell carcinoma; DOR ‐ diagnostic odds ratio; RDOR ‐ relative diagnostic odds ratio; CI ‐ confidence interval; LR ‐ likelihood ratio

aTests whether there is a difference in test performance between defined groups in terms of either DOR or threshold.
 bTests the significance of the difference in DOR between defined groups at a particular SROC curve intercept value.