STARD 2015: An Updated List of Essential Items for Reporting Diagnostic Accuracy Studies

Patrick M Bossuyt¹, Johannes B Reitsma¹, David E Bruns¹+15

• ¹From the Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 22700, 1100 DE Amsterdam, the Netherlands (P.M.B., D.A.K.); Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands (J.B.R.); Department of Pathology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Va (D.E.B.); Center for Statistical Sciences, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, RI (C.A.G.); Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia (P.P.G.); Screening and Diagnostic Test Evaluation Program, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (L.I.); Department of Psychiatry, Onze Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (J.G.L.); Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada (D.M.); School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada (D.M.); Peer Review Congress, Chicago, Ill (D.R.); Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco, Calif (D.R.); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (H.C.W.d.V.); Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass (H.Y.K.); Radiology Editorial Office, Boston, Mass (H.Y.K.); Department of Laboratory Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass (N.R.); Clinical Chemistry Editorial Office, Washington, DC (N.R.); Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics and Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Ill (R.M.G.); JAMA Editorial Office, Chicago, Ill (R.M.G.); Centre for Statistics in Me