Kaizik 2019

Appraisal of: Kaizik M A, Hancock M J, Herbert R D. DiTA: a database of diagnostic test accuracy studies for physiotherapists. In Journal of Physiotherapy 2019;65 (3):119–120. DOI: 10.1016/J.JPHYS.2019.05.006.

Reviewer(s):

Julie Glanville

Caroline Higgins

Full Reference:

Kaizik M A, Hancock M J, Herbert R D. DiTA: a database of diagnostic test accuracy studies for physiotherapists. In Journal of Physiotherapy 2019;65 (3):119–120. DOI: 10.1016/J.JPHYS.2019.05.006.

Short description:

This paper provides a brief description of the use of diagnostic tests in physiotherapy and the challenges of identifying reports of tests in the literature in large bibliographic databases that are not focused on physiotherapy. The paper describes a new free database, the Diagnostic Test Accuracy database (dita.org.au), which identified, curates and indexes diagnostic test accuracy studies and systematic reviews of those studies relevant to physiotherapy. The database is built from searches of MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. All languages are eligible. The earliest study in the database is for 1969 and the earliest systematic review was published in 1993.

Limitations stated by the author(s):

None

Limitations stated by the reviewer(s):

None

Study Type:

Description of a new resource

Related Chapters:

Diagnostic accuracy

Tags:

• diagnostic test accuracy studies

• databases