Meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy studies with multiple thresholds using survival methods

Biometrical Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 95-110

  Putter, H ^a   Fiocco, M ^a   Stijnen, T ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Correlated gamma frailty; Diagnostic tests; Heterogeneity; Meta analysis

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY STUDY; CORRELATED GAMMA FRAILTY; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS; GAMMA FRAILTY MODELS; HETEROGENEITY; META-ANALYSIS; MONOTONICITY; MULTIPLE THRESHOLD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEST ACCURACY;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; SURVIVAL;

DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77952562282     PISSN: 03233847     EISSN: 15214036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bimj.200900073     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Aertgeerts, B., Buntinx, F. and Kester, A. (2004). The value of the CAGE in screening for alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence in general clinical populations: A diagnostic meta-analysis. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 57, 30-39.
2. Arends, L.R., Hamza, T.H., van Houwelingen, J.C., Heijenbrok-Kal, M.H., Hunink, M.G.M. and Stijnen, T. (2008). Bivariate random effects meta-analysis of ROC curves. Medical Decision Making 28, 621-638.
3. Bipat, S., Zwinderman, A.H., Bossuyt, P.M.M. and Stoker, J. (2007). Multivariate random-effects approach: For meta-analysis of cancer staging studies. Academic Radiology 14, 974-984.
4. Böhning, D., Kuhnert, R. and Rattanasiri, S. (2008). Meta-analysis of Binary Data using Profile Likelihood. Chapman&Hall/CRC Press, Boca Raton.
5. Bossuyt, P., Reitsma, J., Bruns, D., Gatsonis, C., Glasziou, P., Irwig, L., Lijmer, J., Moher, D., Rennie, D., de Vet, H. and STARD Group (2003). Towards complete and accurate reporting of studies of diagnostic accuracy: The STARD initiative. Annals of Internal Medicine 138, 40-44.
6. Chang, B.-H., Waternaux, C. and Lipsitz, S. (2001). Meta-analysis of binary data: which within study variance estimate to use? Statistics in Medicine 20, 1947-1956.
7. Chu, H. and Cole, S.R. (2006). Bivariate meta-analysis of sensitivity and specificity with sparse data: a generalized linear mixed model approach. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 59, 1331-1332.
8. Chu, H. and Guo, H. (2009). Letter to the editor. Biostatistics 10, 201-203.
9. Dukic, V. and Gatsonis, C. (2003). Meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy assessment studies with varying number of thresholds. Biometrics 59, 936-946.
10. Fiocco, M., Putter, H. and van Houwelingen, H.C. (2009a). Meta-analysis of paired survival curves under heterogeneity: a Poisson correlated gamma frailty approach. Statistics in Medicine, DOI: 10.1002/sim.3752.
11. Fiocco, M., Putter, H. and van Houwelingen, H.C. (2009b). A new serially correlated gamma-frailty process for longitudinal count data. Biostatistics 10, 245-257.
12. Genz, A., Bretz, F., Miwa, T., Mi, X., Leisch, F., Scheipl, F. and Hothorn, T. (2009). mvtnorm: Multivariate Normal and t Distributions URL http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=mvtnorm. R package version 0.9-7.
13. Hamza, T.H., van Houwelingen, H.C. and Stijnen, T. (2008). The binomial distribution of meta-analysis was preferred to model within-study variability. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 61, 41-51.
14. Hamza, T.H., van Houwelingen, H.C. and Stijnen, T. (2009). Multivariate random effects meta-analysis for diagnostic tests with multiple thresholds. BMC Medical Research Methodology (to appear).
15. Harbord, R.M., Deeks, J.J., Egger, M., Whiting, P. and Sterne, J.A.C. (2007). A unification of models for meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy studies. Biostatistics 8, 239-251.
16. Henderson, R. and Shimakura, S. (2003). A serially correlated gamma frailty model for longitudinal count data. Biometrika 90, 355-366.
17. Irwig, L., Tosteson, A., Gatsonis, C., Lau, J., Colditz, G., Chalmers, T. and Mosteller, F. (1994). Guidelines for meta-analyses evaluating diagnostic tests. Annals of Internal Medicine 120, 667-676.
18. Leeflang, M.M.G., Deeks, J.J., Gatsonis, C., Bossuyt, P.M.M. and Cochrane Diagnostic Test Accuracy (2008). Systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy. Annals of Internal Medicine 149, 889-897.
19. Lindsay, B.G. (1988). Composite likelihood methods. Contemporary Mathematics 80, 221-239.
20. Littenberg, B. and Moses, L.E. (1993). Estimating diagnostic accuracy from multiple conflicting reports: a new meta-analytic method. Medical Decision Making 13, 313-321.
21. Moses, L.E., Shapiro, D. and Littenberg, B. (1993). Combining independent studies of a diagnostic test into a summary ROC curve: data-analytic approaches and some additional considerations. Statistics in Medicine 12, 1293-1316.
22. Reitsma, J.B., Glas, A.S., Rutjes, A.W.S., Scholten, R.J.P. M., Bossuyt, P.M. and Zwinderman, A.H. (2005). Bivariate analysis of sensitivity and specificity produces informative summary measures in diagnostic reviews. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 58, 982-990.
23. Riley, R.D., Abrams, K.R., Lambert, P.C., Sutton, A.J. and Thompson, J.R. (2007). An evaluation of bivariate random-effects meta-analysis for the joint synthesis of two correlated outcomes. Statistics in Medicine 26, 78-97.
24. Riley, R.D., Dodd, S.R., Craig, J.V., Thompson, J.R. and Williamson, P.R. (2008). Meta-analysis of diagnostic test studies using individual patient data and aggregate data. Statistics in Medicine 27, 6111-6136.
25. Rutter, C.M. and Gatsonis, C.A. (2001). A hierarchical regression approach to meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy evalutions. Statistics in Medicine 20, 2865-2884.
26. Smidt, N., Rutjes, A.W.S., van der Windt, D.A.W. M., Ostelo, R.W.J. G., Reitsma, J.B., Bossuyt, P.M., Bouter, L.M. and de Vet, H.C.W. (2005). Quality of reporting of diagnostic accuracy studies. Radiology 235, 347-353.
27. van Houwelingen, H., Arends, L. and Stijnen, T. (2002). Advanced methods in meta-analysis: multivariate approach and meta-regression. Statistics in Medicine 21, 589-624.
28. van Houwelingen, H.C., Zwinderman, A.H. and Stijnen, T. (1993). A bivariate approach to meta-analysis. Statistics in Medicine 12, 2273-2284.
29. Verbeke, G. and Molenberghs, G. (2000). Linear Mixed Models for Longitudinal Data. Springer, New York.
30. Walter, S. (2002). Properties of the summary receiver operating characteristic (SROC) curve for diagnostic test data. Statistics in Medicine 21, 1237-1256.
31. Wehrens, R., Putter, H. and Buydens, L.M.C. (2000). The bootstrap: a tutorial. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems 54, 35-52.