Diagnostic Meta-Analysis: A Useful Tool for Clinical Decision-Making (Hardcover, 2018)

SECTION I 1. Introduction to Clinical Diagnosis Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai, Mariangela Peruzzi, Simona Mastrangeli, Giacomo Frati 2. The Evidence hierarchy Mical Paul 3. Peculiarities of Diagnostic Test Accuracy Studies Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai, Simona Mastrangeli, Mariangela Peruzzi, Giacomo Frati 4. Meta-analyses of Clinical Trials vs Diagnostic Test Accuracy Studies Michail Tsagris, Konstantinos C. Fragkos SECTION II 5. Designing the Review Jose Mauro Madi, Machline Paim Paganella, Isnard Elman Litvin, Eliana Marcia Wendland 6. Registering the review Alison Booth, Julie Jones-Diette 7. Searching for Diagnostic Test Accuracy Studies Su Golder, Julie Glanville 8. Abstracting Evidence Luca Testa, Mario Bollati 9. Appraising Evidence Valentina Pecoraro 10. Synthesizing Evidence Paul-Christian Burkner 11. Appraising Heterogeneity Antonia Zapf 12. Statistical Packages and Diagnostic Meta-analysis and Their Application Philipp Doebler, Paul Burkner and Gerta Rucker 13. Network Meta-analysis of Diagnostic Test Accuracy Studies Gerta Rucker 14. Transition to Intervention Meta-analysis Umberto Benedetto, Colin Ng 15. Updating Diagnostic Test Accuracy Systematic Reviews: Which, When and How Should They be Updated? Ersilia Lucenteforte, Alessandra Bettiol, Salvatore De Masi, Gianni Virgili SECTION III 16.Diagnostic Meta-Analysis: Case Study in Endocrinology Kosma Wolinski 17. Diagnostic Meta-Analysis: Case Study in Gastroenterology Bashar J. Qumseya, Michael Wallace 18.Diagnostic Meta-Analysis: Case Study in Oncology Sulbaran Marianny, Sousa Afonso, Bustamante-Lopez Leonardo 19. Diagnostic Meta-analysis: Case Study in Surgery Eliana Al Haddad, Hutan Ashrafian, Thanos Athanasiou SECTION IV 20. Avenues for Further Research Yulun Liu, Yong Chen 21. Conclusion Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai