Impact of STARD on reporting quality of diagnostic accuracy studies in a top Indian Medical Journal: A retrospective survey

• DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.3413v1
• Publication Date: 2018-01-13T09:25:56Z
• Authors: Rajashree Yellur; Shabbeer Hassan
• Keywords: 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; 0305 other medical science; 3. Good health

Improper reporting of diagnostic studies leads to an incorrect assessment their clinical performance. STARD (Standards for Reporting Diagnostic Accuracy Studies) checklist was launched in 2003 with the intention improving quality accuracy studies. The main aim this study check extent which published follow 28-item checklist. We conducted a literature survey Indian Journal Medical Research (IJMR) between years 1995-2013 evaluating by checking adherence STARD. Relevant (N=76) were retrieved from IJMR website and data extraction performed two authors simultaneously. A simple pre-post analysis found that there no overall change before after released. Though some items like description participant sampling (χ 2 = 5.712, p 0.0169), applicability findings 9.704, 0.0018) had significant increase post-STARD period. To take into account any underlying trend we interrupted time-series done. publication (β 3 0.215 ± 0.068, 0.034). have improved since introduction STARD, however, error/defects many sections remain as before.