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Family Practice Vol. 21, No. 1, 3
© Oxford University Press 2004, all rights reserved.

Editorial

Reporting studies of diagnostic accuracy: the STARD initiative

Roger Jones

Guy's, King's & St Thomas' School of Medicine, London, UK

E-mail: roger.jones{at}kcl.ac.uk

Jones R. Reporting studies of diagnostic accuracy: the STARD initiative. Family Practice 2004; 21: 3.

Family Practice tries to keep its readers abreast of good practice in medical publishing. We encourage the reporting of randomized controlled trials in a format which is consistent with the Consort statement (www.consort-statement.org), and more recently have published the COPE guidelines on publication ethics (www.publicationethics.org.uk) which set out the principles on which authors, reviewers and editors should conduct themselves.

In this issue of Family Practice, we publish a summary of the STARD initiative (Standards for Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy), to provide authors and referees with a framework within which the results of evaluations of diagnostic tests should be published.

The STARD steering committee comprises representatives from clinical epidemiology, statistical sciences, public health and social medicine from The Netherlands, North America and Australia, and is supported by a larger STARD group, with wide representation from a range of disciplines. The starting point for the STARD initiative was the recognition that diagnostic technology is developing rapidly, and that accuracy and completeness in reporting studies of diagnostic accuracy is essential if readers are to assess the potential for bias in studies, to evaluate the generalizability of their results, and to determine the likely utility of a particular technology in their own health care setting. To develop the standards, a literature review identified publications on the conduct and reporting of diagnostic studies which formed the basis for discussion during a 2-day consensus conference, which generated a checklist and a generic flow diagram for studies of diagnostic accuracy. These form part of the STARD statement which appears in this issue of Family Practice.


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