Table 2 Summary of main changes in STARD 2015
From: Updating standards for reporting diagnostic accuracy: the development of STARD 2015
| Section | Authors are invited to.. |
|---|---|
| Title/abstract | report a structured abstract, according to STARD for Abstracts (item 2). |
| Introduction | report the intended use and clinical role of the index test under investigations (item 3), along with specific study hypotheses (item 4). |
| Methods | report whether test positivity cutoffs or result categories were pre-specified or exploratory (item 12), whether analyses of variability in diagnostic accuracy were pre-specified or exploratory (item 17), and how they determined the intended sample size (item 18). |
| Results | always provide a diagram, illustrating the flow of participants through the study (item 19). |
| Discussion | discuss potential study limitations (item 26) and the implications for practice of the study findings (item 27). |
| Other information | report the registration number (item 28), where the full study protocol can be accessed (item 29), and sources of funding (item 30). |