Page Comparison

Author/Date

Inclusion/exclusion criteria: i.e. presenting symptoms, results from previous tests

Inclusion: Exclusion:

Sample size

Participant demographics  (i.e. age, sex, spectrum of presenting symptoms, comorbidity, current treatments, recruitment centres)

Study methodology ( consecutive or random;

retrospective or prospective)

Period that study was carried out (beginning and end date)

Index test description (including criteria for positive test)

Reference test description (including criteria for positive test)

Geographical location of data collection

Setting of data collection

Persons executing and interpreting index tests

(numbers, training, and expertise)

Persons executing and interpreting reference test

Index/reference time interval (and treatments carried out in between)

Distribution of severity of disease in those with target condition

Other diagnoses in those without target condition

Adverse events from index test

Adverse events from reference test