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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
Index test results
Threshold=
Condition positive
Condition negative
Total
Index test positive (T+)
Index test negative (T-)