Preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy studies (PRISMA-DTA): explanation, elaboration, and checklist

Affiliations

• ¹ Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
• ² Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Amsterdam University Medical Centres, University Medical Centres, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• ³ University of Ottawa Department of Radiology, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
• ⁴ Lady Davis Institute of the Jewish General Hospital and Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada.
• ⁵ Exeter Test Group, College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
• ⁶ University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
• ⁷ Test Evaluation Research Group, Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
• ⁸ NIHR Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
• ⁹ Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, University Medical Centres, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• ¹⁰ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centres, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• ¹¹ Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
• ¹² Julius Centre for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Cochrane Netherlands, Utrecht, Netherlands.
• ¹³ Department of Paediatrics and Inserm UMR 1153 (Centre of Research in Epidemiology and Statistics), Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris Descartes University, Paris, France.
• ¹⁴ Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Berner Institut für Hausarztmedizin, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
• ¹⁵ University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
• ¹⁶ Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
• ¹⁷ Lady Davis Institute of the Jewish General Hospital and Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada.
• ¹⁸ Ottawa Hospital Research Institute Clinical Epidemiology Program (Centre for Journalology), Ottawa, ON, Canada.
• ¹⁹ Clinical Epidemiology Programme, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1E 4M9, Canada mmcinnes@toh.ca.