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The development of QUADAS: a tool for the quality assessment of studies of diagnostic accuracy included in systematic reviews

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Research Methodology, November 2003
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Title
The development of QUADAS: a tool for the quality assessment of studies of diagnostic accuracy included in systematic reviews
Published in
BMC Medical Research Methodology, November 2003
DOI 10.1186/1471-2288-3-25
Pubmed ID
Authors

Penny Whiting, Anne WS Rutjes, Johannes B Reitsma, Patrick MM Bossuyt, Jos Kleijnen

Abstract

In the era of evidence based medicine, with systematic reviews as its cornerstone, adequate quality assessment tools should be available. There is currently a lack of a systematically developed and evaluated tool for the assessment of diagnostic accuracy studies. The aim of this project was to combine empirical evidence and expert opinion in a formal consensus method to develop a tool to be used in systematic reviews to assess the quality of primary studies of diagnostic accuracy.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 12 <1%
United States 11 <1%
Canada 8 <1%
Germany 7 <1%
Spain 6 <1%
Netherlands 6 <1%
Brazil 5 <1%
Colombia 4 <1%
France 3 <1%
Other 22 2%
Unknown 1348 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 206 14%
Researcher 198 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 196 14%
Student > Bachelor 124 9%
Other 117 8%
Other 381 27%
Unknown 210 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 675 47%
Nursing and Health Professions 101 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 68 5%
Psychology 47 3%
Social Sciences 40 3%
Other 223 16%
Unknown 278 19%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 39. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 July 2021.
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#1,117,117
of 26,388,722 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Research Methodology
#108
of 2,379 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,098
of 61,504 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Research Methodology
#2
of 6 outputs
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