TY - JOUR AU - Zintzaras, Elias AU - Papathanasiou, Afroditi A. AU - Ziogas, Dimitrios C. AU - Voulgarelis, Michael PY - 2012 DA - 2012/06/25 TI - The reporting quality of studies investigating the diagnostic accuracy of anti-CCP antibody in rheumatoid arthritis and its impact on diagnostic estimates JO - BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders SP - 113 VL - 13 IS - 1 AB - Recently anti-CCP testing has become popular in the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, the inadequate reporting of the relevant diagnostic studies may overestimate and bias the results, directing scientists into making false decisions. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the reporting quality of studies used anti-CCP2 for the diagnosis of RA and to explore the impact of reporting quality on pooled estimates of diagnostic measures. SN - 1471-2474 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-13-113 DO - 10.1186/1471-2474-13-113 ID - Zintzaras2012 ER -