From: Selecting and implementing overview methods: implications from five exemplar overviews
Reported characteristics from included reviews | Pollock [19] | McClurg [21] | Estcourt [20] | Hunt [22] | Brunton [23] |
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Review reference | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
Date of search | √ | √ | √ | √ |  |
Country (of included studies) |  |  | √ | √ | √ |
Objective of review | √ | √ | √ | √ |  |
Types of studies included in review | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
Participants included in review | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
Intervention included in review (including name or brief description) | √ | √ | √ |  | √ |
Reference standard(s) included in the review (including details: assessment tool used, version, assessor details, description) |  |  |  | √ |  |
Index test(s) included in review (including brief cognitive assessment details: name, creator, version, description) |  |  |  | √ |  |
Test thresholds included within the review |  |  |  | √ |  |
Comparisons included in review | √ | √ | √ | √ |  |
Outcomes included in review | √ | √ | √ |  | √ |
Target condition being addressed in the review |  |  |  | √ |  |
Population prevalence of condition addressed in the review |  |  |  | √ |  |
Setting focus of the review |  |  | √ | √ | √ |
Number of studies included in review | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
Number of participants included in review | √ | √ | √ | √ |  |
Other outcomes reported beyond diagnostic test accuracy in the review |  |  |  | √ |  |
Statistical data from included reviews reported in overview | |||||
Effect size | √ | √ | √ |  |  |
Confidence intervals | √ | √ | √ | √ |  |
2 × 2 table components (TP, FP, TN, FN) |  |  |  | √ |  |
Sensitivity, specificity |  |  |  | √ |  |
Positive Predictive Value, Negative Predictive Value |  |  |  | √ |  |
Tests compared, direct/indirect comparisons |  |  |  | √ |  |
Heterogeneity (statistical measure) | √ | √ | √ | √ |  |
Direction of effect | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
Results of moderator analyses |  |  |  |  | √ |