Selecting and implementing overview methods: implications from five exemplar overviews

Table 2 Characteristics of included reviews which are reported in tables in overviews

Reported characteristics from included reviews	Pollock [19]	McClurg [21]	Estcourt [20]	Hunt [22]	Brunton [23]
Review reference	√	√	√	√	√
Date of search	√	√	√	√
Country (of included studies)			√	√	√
Objective of review	√	√	√	√
Types of studies included in review	√	√	√	√	√
Participants included in review	√	√	√	√	√
Intervention included in review (including name or brief description)	√	√	√		√
Reference standard(s) included in the review (including details: assessment tool used, version, assessor details, description)				√
Index test(s) included in review (including brief cognitive assessment details: name, creator, version, description)				√
Test thresholds included within the review				√
Comparisons included in review	√	√	√	√
Outcomes included in review	√	√	√		√
Target condition being addressed in the review				√
Population prevalence of condition addressed in the review				√
Setting focus of the review			√	√	√
Number of studies included in review	√	√	√	√	√
Number of participants included in review	√	√	√	√
Other outcomes reported beyond diagnostic test accuracy in the review				√
Statistical data from included reviews reported in overview
Effect size	√	√	√
Confidence intervals	√	√	√	√
2 × 2 table components (TP, FP, TN, FN)				√
Sensitivity, specificity				√
Positive Predictive Value, Negative Predictive Value				√
Tests compared, direct/indirect comparisons				√
Heterogeneity (statistical measure)	√	√	√	√
Direction of effect	√	√	√	√	√
Results of moderator analyses					√

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