Diagnostic Accuracy

Uses

How it works

Evidence quality

Highlighted claims

• The review's primary outcomes are sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value. — Accuracy of epilepsy screening tools in community and primary care settings across countries in Sub-Saharan Africa: systematic review and meta-analysis protocol
• Eligible studies must report or allow calculation of true positives, false positives, true negatives, and false negatives. — Accuracy of epilepsy screening tools in community and primary care settings across countries in Sub-Saharan Africa: systematic review and meta-analysis protocol
• True and false classification counts will be used to estimate pooled sensitivity, specificity, and diagnostic odds ratio. — Accuracy of epilepsy screening tools in community and primary care settings across countries in Sub-Saharan Africa: systematic review and meta-analysis protocol
• Predictive values will be estimated across a plausible prevalence range because they depend strongly on disease prevalence. — Accuracy of epilepsy screening tools in community and primary care settings across countries in Sub-Saharan Africa: systematic review and meta-analysis protocol
• The Wilson method will calculate 95% confidence intervals for diagnostic accuracy parameters. — Accuracy of epilepsy screening tools in community and primary care settings across countries in Sub-Saharan Africa: systematic review and meta-analysis protocol
• Summary ROC curves and AUC values will be used to assess overall diagnostic performance. — Accuracy of epilepsy screening tools in community and primary care settings across countries in Sub-Saharan Africa: systematic review and meta-analysis protocol