Kaizik 2020

Appraisal of: Kaizik MA, Hancock MJ, Herbert RD. A description of the primary studies of diagnostic test accuracy indexed on the DiTA database. Physiother Res Int. 2020 Oct;25(4):e1871.

Reviewer(s):

Caroline Higgins

Julie Glanville

Full Reference:

Kaizik MA, Hancock MJ, Herbert RD. A description of the primary studies of diagnostic test accuracy indexed on the DiTA database. Physiother Res Int. 2020 Oct;25(4):e1871. doi: 10.1002/pri.1871. PMID: 32914556.

Short description:

Producers of the PEDro database describe their newly created DiTA database of primary DTA studies of and systematic review publications relevant to physiotherapy practice. Using systematic review methods to identify and assess relevant studies, DiTA is populated by records identified via MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL. No language or year of publication limits were used in searching or screening of studies. At the time of publication, DiTA contained 1,419 records and as of October 2022 has grown to 2,386 records.

Limitations stated by the author(s):

Authors reported after initial search strategies with high sensitivity proved unfeasible to project timelines, they opted for a less sensitive search, thus acknowledging the likelihood of missed studies.

Limitations stated by the reviewer(s):

None

Study Type:

Review

Related Chapters:

Diagnostic Accuracy

Tags:

• diagnostic accuracy

• database DiTA

• physiotherapy