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• Ruth Mitchell: Designed search strategies, undertook searches.
• Andrew Hayen: Designed the statistical methodology, analysed and interpreted data.
• Laura Baines: Performed previous research that formed the foundation of the current review, provided a clinical perspective
(nephrology).

• Stephen Lord: Performed previous research that formed the foundation of the current review, provided a clinical perspective
(cardiology).
• Jonathan C Craig: Provided methodological and clinical perspectives, and general advice on the review.

D E C L A R A T I O N S O F I N T E R E S T

• Laura Baines: None known
• Jonathan C Craig: None known
• Magid A Fahim: None known
• Andrew Hayen: None known
• Stephen Lord: None Known
• Ruth L Mitchell: During the time I have been an author on this review my salary has been supported through a grant from the
Cochrane Collaboration for work on the Cochrane register of diagnostic test accuracy studies.
• Louis W Wang: None known.
• Angela C Webster: None known

S O U R C E S O F S U P P O R T

Internal sources
• No sources of support supplied

External sources

• Jacquot Research Establishment Award, administered by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and the Australian and
New Zealand Society of Nephrology, Australia.
• Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Program (Grant Number 402764), Australia.

D I F F E R E N C E S B E T W E E N P R O T O C O L A N D R E V I E W
Sparsity of data, both in terms of numbers of studies and participants, meant that we were unable to perform meaningful subgroup
analyses of the effect of DM or prevalence of angina and symptomatic ischaemic heart disease on diagnostic test performance.

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