Suboptimal Quality and High Risk of Bias in Diagnostic Test Accuracy Studies at Chest Radiography and CT in the Acute Setting of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review.
Dominika SucháRobbert Willem van HamersveltAndor F van den HovenPim A de JongHelena M VerkooijenPublished in: Radiology. Cardiothoracic imaging (2020)
Reported CT test accuracy for COVID-19 diagnosis varies substantially. The validity and generalizability of these findings is complicated by poor adherence to reporting guidelines and high risk of bias, which are most likely due to the need for urgent publication of findings in the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic.Supplemental material is available for this article.© RSNA, 2020.
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