The Cochrane Hepato-Biliary Group (The CHBG) · Introduction to The Cochrane Collaboration. Medical...
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The Cochrane Hepato-Biliary Group (The CHBG)
Dimitrinka Nikolova, Managing Editor, Editorial Team Office,
The Cochrane Hepato-Biliary Group Copenhagen Trial Unit, Rigshopitalet,
Copenhagen, Denmark
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Editorial Team Office – The Copenhagen Trial Unit, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, DK Editors – 22 people in total; DTAR Editors - 4 people Authors – 999 people CHBG members – 1969 people DTARs – 19 registered titles; 17 protocols; 10 reviews
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What do we do?
1. Intervention reviews: assess the benefits and harms of interventions
2. Diagnostic test accuracy reviews: assess how well a diagnostic test performs in screening or diagnosing and detecting a particular disease
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3. Methodology reviews 4. Overview of reviews 5. Intervention reviews with network meta-analyses
CHBG publications: 274 protocols and 178 reviews - 8 DTAR protocols published
- 1 DTAR review published
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The Cochrane Collaboration www.cochrane.org Diagnostic Test Accuracy Working Group srdta.cochrane.org The CHBG hbg.cochrane.org
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A Cochrane DTA review is preceded by a peer reviewed and published protocol
A Cochrane DTA review may or may not contain meta-analyses
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Cochrane systematic reviews are prepared in RevMan 5 software
ims.cochrane.org/revman Published in Cochrane database of
systematic reviews – part of The Cochrane Library
thecochranelibrary.com
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Cochrane Systematic Review of Diagnostic Test Accuracy
A scientific summary of all available evidence i.e., a comparison between the target condition estimated by the index test and the reference standard
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The research question
Is there a need to answer this question?
Can it be assessed by a test accuracy?
Available tests?
Which is/are the reference standard(s)?
What tests will I compare? (single tests; combination of tests..)
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The research question Cont.
In what way?
What do I expect the index test to do?
Why?
In what patient population? (clinical characteristics/presentation; setting; prior tests)
What is the current diagnostic and clinical
pathway?
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Ready to formulate a title for a Cochrane systematic DTA review? Patients
Index tests
Target disorder
Components of the research question
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Review proposal form
Where to find it? To whom to submit it? Registration. The process. Cochrane reviews have standard formats.
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Clear question
Good protocol
The review preparation easier
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THINGS TO REMEMBER
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Index test - the test under evaluation
Target condition - the condition we are trying to detect
Reference standard - the best way available of identifying the target condition. Reference standard is used to verify the results of the index test
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The accuracy of an index test cannot be evaluated without a reference standard There should be consensus that the reference standard is more accurate than the index test There may be more than one acceptable reference standard that would be appropriate for use in a diagnostic test accuracy study
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A degree of pragmatism may be required when choosing an acceptable reference standard The most accurate reference standard may not be feasible or ethical, and less accurate methods may have to be used The reference standard may comprise several pieces of information (several tests)
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[Index test(s)] for [target condition(s)] [Index test 1] versus [index test 2] for [target condition(s)]
Title formulation
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Title formulation
[Index test 1] versus [index test 2] for [target condition(s)] in [participant description] [Index test(s)] for [target condition(s)] in [participant description]
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DTAR - continuous data should be dichotomised … There will always be a reference standard
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Acknowledgements
The Cochrane Screening and Diagnostic Test Methods Group, The Cochrane Collaboration. Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Diagnostic Test Accuracy http://srdta.cochrane.org/presentations