Goncalves 2011.

Study characteristics
Patient Sampling	Cross‐sectional study of consecutive memory clinic attenders attending with an informant
Patient characteristics and setting	Participants were referred by their primary care physicians Memory clinic, city hospital in Brisbane Australia, n = 204
Index tests	IQCODE 16 item, English language
Target condition and reference standard(s)	Clinical diagnosis of dementia using DSM‐IV‐TR criteria including IQCODE result
Flow and timing	Of 243 potential subjects, 208 attended with an informant. A further 4 were excluded due to missing cognitive test data, final sample n = 204 Index test and initial assessment performed together; clinical assessment by psychiatrist performed 2 weeks later with knowledge of all results and reference standard determined at that point
Comparative
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Methodological quality
Item	Authors' judgement	Risk of bias	Applicability concerns
DOMAIN 1: Patient Selection
Was a consecutive or random sample of patients enrolled?	Yes
Was a case‐control design avoided?	Yes
Did the study avoid inappropriate exclusions?	Yes
Could the selection of patients have introduced bias?		Low risk
Are there concerns that the included patients and setting do not match the review question?			Low concern
DOMAIN 3: Reference Standard
Is the reference standards likely to correctly classify the target condition?	Yes
Could the reference standard, its conduct, or its interpretation have introduced bias?		High risk
Are there concerns that the target condition as defined by the reference standard does not match the question?			Low concern
DOMAIN 4: Flow and Timing
Was there an appropriate interval between index test and reference standard?	Yes
Were all patients included in the analysis?	No
Could the patient flow have introduced bias?		Low risk