Standards for Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies

A vital component of the healthcare system is diagnostic tests. There have been several studies on diagnostic accuracy, but they have used different methodologies, analyses, and interpretations. The reader’s inability to judge quality and bias when coupled with insufficient reporting makes it difficult to translate the results into practical healthcare.

To address these issues, the Standards for Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies (STARD) developed a 25-point checklist in 2003 that is relevant to all diagnostic tests and ensures transparency and accuracy in reporting. STARD was changed to a 30-point checklist in 2015 to make it more inclusive. On http://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/stard, you may find pertinent information. STARD is a tool that authors may use to create complete manuscripts. Editors and reviewers can also examine the conformity of the narrative to the criteria.

Some of the guidelines for writing a manuscript include using an accuracy measure in the title or abstract, making sure the abstract is structured and complete, defining the proposed clinical role of the index test, reviewing the study’s design and methodology, thoroughly describing the demographics of participants and the requirements for eligibility, adopting a reference test, using statistical tests, and simply covering bias, limitations, and applicability.

One can be confident that diagnostic accuracy studies will improve with STARD use.

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