Evaluation of the Diagnostic Efficacy of Xpert CT/NG for Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Table 3

Quality evaluation of the included articles.

Author

Year

QUADAS-2

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

Goldenberg

2012

Y

Y

Y

UC

UC

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Gaydos

2013

Y

Y

UC

N

UC

Y

Y

UC

Y

Y

N

Jenson

2013

Y

Y

N

Y

UC

Y

Y

N

Y

Y

Y

Causer

2015

Y

Y

Y

Y

UC

Y

UC

Y

Y

Y

Y

Peuchant

2015

Y

Y

Y

Y

UC

Y

N

Y

Y

Y

Y

Geiger

2016

Y

Y

Y

Y

UC

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Bristow

2017

Y

Y

UC

N

UC

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Cosentino

2017

Y

N

N

Y

UC

Y

N

Y

N

N

Y

Dize

2017

UC

Y

N

N

UC

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Wilson

2017

Y

N

N

N

UC

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

N

Causer

2018

Y

Y

N

Y

UC

Y

N

Y

N

N

Y

Badman

2018

Y

Y

N

Y

UC

Y

N

Y

N

N

N

Gaydos

2018

Y

Y

N

UC

UC

Y

UC

Y

Y

Y

Y

Garrett

2019

Y

Y

N

Y

UC

Y

N

Y

N

N

N

1: Was a consecutive or random sample of patients enrolled?; 2: Was a case-control design avoided.; 3: Did the study avoid inappropriate exclusions?; 4: Were the index test results interpreted without knowledge of the results of the reference standard?; 5: If a threshold was used, was it pre-specified?; 6: Is the reference standards likely to correctly classify the target condition?; 7: Were the reference standard results interpreted without knowledge of the results of the index tests?; 8: Was there an appropriate interval between index test and reference standard?; 9: Did all patients receive the reference standard?; 10: Did all patients receive the same reference standard?; 11: Were all patients included in the analysis?