Makamure 2017
| Study characteristics | |||
| Patient sampling | Cross‐sectional design, enrolment by convenience, prospective data collection | ||
| Patient characteristics and setting | Presenting signs and symptoms: MDR‐TB high‐risk patients (TB symptoms with at least 1 of the following: previously confirmed MDR‐TB, failure to convert after at least 2 months therapy, treatment failure, return after default, relapse after completion of treatment or contacts of known MDR‐TB cases) Age: 15 years and older, median: 38 years (IQR 30 to 47) Sex, female: 42% HIV infection: 63% History of TB: 78% Sample size: 210 Clinical setting: not reported Laboratory level: central Country: Zimbabwe World Bank Income Classification: low income High TB burden country: yes High MDR‐TB burden country: yes High TB/HIV burden country: yes |
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| Index tests | Index: Xpert MTB/RIF | ||
| Target condition and reference standard(s) | Target condition: rifampicin resistance Reference standard for rifampicin resistance: LJ |
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| Flow and timing | |||
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| Notes | |||
| Methodological quality | |||
| Item | Authors' judgement | Risk of bias | Applicability concerns |
| DOMAIN 1: Patient Selection | |||
| Was a consecutive or random sample of patients enrolled? | No | ||
| Was a case‐control design avoided? | Yes | ||
| Did the study avoid inappropriate exclusions? | Yes | ||
| High | Unclear | ||
| DOMAIN 2: Index Test Xpert MTB/RIF | |||
| Were the index test results interpreted without knowledge of the results of the reference standard? | Yes | ||
| If a threshold was used, was it pre‐specified? | Yes | ||
| Low | Low | ||
| DOMAIN 3: Reference Standard | |||
| Is the reference standards likely to correctly classify the target condition? | Yes | ||
| Were the reference standard results for TB detection interpreted without knowledge of the results of the index test? | |||
| Were the reference standard results for rifampicin resistance detection interpreted without knowledge of the results of the index test? | Yes | ||
| Low | Low | ||
| DOMAIN 4: Flow and Timing | |||
| Was there an appropriate interval between index test and reference standard? | Yes | ||
| Did all patients receive the same reference standard? | Yes | ||
| Were all patients included in the analysis? | Yes | ||
| Low | |||