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S I G N Methodology Checklist 5: Studies of Diagnostic Accuracy This checklist is based on the work of the QUADAS2 team at Bristol Univeristy http://www.bris.ac.uk/quadas/ . Study identification Include author, title, reference, year of publication Guideline topic: Key Question No: Before completing this checklist, consider: Is the paper really a study of diagnostic accuracy? It should be comparing a specific diagnostic test against another, and not a general paper or comment on diagnosis. Is the paper relevant to key question? Analyse using PICO Patient or Population Intervention Comp