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Effect sizes were calculated, but a meta-analysis was not possible because of the large variability of study design and outcome measures adopted.
The number of events in analyses is the 'effective' sample size and dictates the variability of study estimates.
Variability of study results can be partly attributed to patient spectrum/treatment, specimen characteristics, assay methods, study design and statistical analysis.
Because of the variability of study types we did not exclude on quality and findings are weighted by the number of studies.
Because of the variability of study types we did not exclude on quality or attempt to weight findings according to power or effect size.
A meta-analysis was not performed because of the large variability of study designs, general poor quality of studies, and the lack of clearly defined similar dependent variables.
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I ranges from 0 to 100% and can be interpreted as the variability of study-specific effect estimates attributable to true between study effects.
Third, our application of GRADE system was rather simplistic restricted by large number of endpoints and variability of studies included.
We made an a priori decision to use the random effect model to take into account the variability of studied populations and intervention types.
Out of 14 QUADAS items, item 1 (spectrum composition) and item 2 (selection criteria) are about the variability of studies, item 8 (index test execution), 9 (reference standard execution) and 13 (uninterpretable test results) are about the quality of reporting, the rest of the items are about the bias of studies.
Data was analyzed using the random effects model, including adjustment to evaluate variability, size of study and bias in effect size.
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