Chapter 19
STARD (STAndards for Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies)
Patrick M.M. Bossuyt,
Patrick M.M. Bossuyt
Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Search for more papers by this authorPatrick M.M. Bossuyt,
Patrick M.M. Bossuyt
Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Search for more papers by this authorBook Editor(s):David Moher,
Douglas G. Altman,
Kenneth F. Schulz,
Iveta Simera,
Elizabeth Wager,
David Moher
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Search for more papers by this authorDouglas G. Altman
Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford and EQUATOR Network, Oxford, UK
Search for more papers by this authorKenneth F. Schulz
FHI360, Durham, and UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Search for more papers by this authorIveta Simera
Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford and EQUATOR Network Oxford, UK
Search for more papers by this authorFirst published: 25 July 2014
Summary
The objective of the Standards for the Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy studies (STARD) initiative is to improve the accuracy and completeness of reporting of studies of diagnostic accuracy, to allow readers to assess the potential for bias in the study and to evaluate its generalizability. Diagnostic accuracy is often expressed as the test-s sensitivity and specificity: the proportion of the diseased correctly classified as such by the test, and the proportion of participants without the target condition correctly classified as such, respectively. The STARD group believes that one general checklist for studies of diagnostic accuracy, rather than different checklists for each field, will be more widely disseminated and more easily accepted by authors, peer reviewers, and journal editors. This chapter discusses evidence of effectiveness of guideline, endorsement and adherence, cautions and limitations and creators' preferred bits for the STARD.
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