Zarei

Appraisal of: Zarei F, Zeinali-Rafsanjani B. Assessment of Adherence of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies Published in Radiology Journals to STARD Statement Indexed in Web of Science, PubMed & Scopus in 2015. In J Biomed Phys Eng 2018;8 (3):311–324.

Reviewers:

Julie Glanville

Full reference:

Zarei F, Zeinali-Rafsanjani B. Assessment of Adherence of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies Published in Radiology Journals to STARD Statement Indexed in Web of Science, PubMed & Scopus in 2015. In J Biomed Phys Eng 2018;8 (3):311–324.

Short description:

This study explored how 151 articles from 31 radiology journals adhered to the STARD reporting guidance for DTA studies. There is limited information from the search perspective but the authors do report that only one of the DTA articles had a study registration number (0.66% of the total set) and 10 (6.62%) had links to a full study protocol.

Limitations stated by the study author(s):

No limitations reported.

Limitations stated by the reviewers:

This is an assessment of radiology journals so registration may differ in other fields.

SuRe Info keywords (pre-defined tags):

diagnostic test accuracy studies

Study type:

Audit

Comments from the author(s):

The usefulness of this paper is in providing a snapshot of the value of search trials registers for DTA studies and for indicating the availability of grey literature relative to DTA studies.