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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth BioMedCentral Study protocol Open Access Prediction of pre-eclampsia: a protocol for systematic reviews of test accuracy Jeltsje S Cnossen*1,2, Joris AM van der Post2, Ben WJ Mol2, Khalid S Khan3, Catherine A Meads4 and Gerben ter Riet1,5 Address: 1Academic Medical Center-University of Amsterdam, Department of General Practice, PO Box 22660, 1100 DD, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2Academic Medical Center-University of Amsterdam, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, PO Box 22660, 1100 DD, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 3Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Birmingham Womens Hospital/University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TG, UK, 4Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health Building, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK and 5Horten Center, University of Zurich, Bolleystrasse 40, CH-8091, Zurich, Switzerland Email: Jeltsje S Cnossen* - ossen@amc.uva.nl; Joris AM van der Post - j.a.vanderpost@amc.uva.nl; Ben WJ Mol - b.w.mol@amc.uva.nl; Khalid S Khan - k.s.khan@bham.ac.uk; Catherine A Meads - c.a.meads@bham.ac.uk; Gerben ter Riet - g.terriet@amc.uva.nl * Corresponding author Published: 19 October 2006 Received: 13 September 2006 Accepted: 19 October 2006 BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2006, 6:29 doi:10.1186/1471-2393-6-29 This article is available from: /1471-2393/6/29 ? 2006 Cnossen et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Pre-eclampsia, a syndrome of hypertension and proteinuria, is a major cause of maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. Accurate prediction of pre-eclampsia is important, since high risk women could benefit from intensive monitoring and preventive treatment. However, decision ma