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Clinical Chemistry 53: 1983-1985, 2007; 10.1373/clinchem.2007.090167
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Endorsement of the STARD Statement by Biomedical Journals: Survey of Instructions for Authors

Nynke Smidt1,a, John Overbeke2, Henrica de Vet3 and Patrick Bossuyt1

1 Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Academic Medical Center University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2 University Medical Center St Radboud Department of Medical Informatics Nijmegen, The Netherlands
3 EMGO Institute VU University Medical Center Amsterdam, The Netherlands

aAddress correspondence to this author at: Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 22700, 1100 DE Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Fax 31-(0)20-6912683; e-mail n.smidt@amc.uva.nl.

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The Standards for the Reporting of Diagnostic accuracy studies (STARD) statement was first published in 2003 (1)(2). In February 2006, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors decided to encourage the use of the STARD statement by including it in their Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical journals (www.icmje.com).

The STARD statement contains a checklist of 25 recommended items for the reporting of diagnostic accuracy studies and encourages the use of a flow diagram to represent the design of the study and the flow of patients through the study (1)(2).

Early evaluation of the STARD statement showed that the quality of diagnostic research reports had improved slightly over time, without a more pronounced effect in adopting journals (i.e., journals mentioning STARD in their Instructions for Authors) (3). We determined to what extent journals have adopted the STARD statement and incorporated the recommendations in their Instructions for . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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