Towards complete and accurate reporting of studies of diagnostic accuracy: the STARD initiative

Members of the STARD steering committee

Patrick Bossuyt (Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands), David Bruns (Clinical Chemistry, Charlottesville, VA, USA), Constantine Gatsonis (Centre for Statistical Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA), Paul Glasziou (Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Mayne Medical School, Herston, Australia), Les Irwig (Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia), Jeroen Lijmer (Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands), David Moher (Chalmers Research Group, Ottowa, ON, Canada), Drummond Rennie (JAMA, Jacksonville, FL, USA), Riekie de Vet (Institute for Research in Extramural Medicine, Free University, Amsterdam, Netherlands).

Members of the STARD group

Doug Altman (Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Institute of Health Sciences, Oxford), Stuart Barton (British Medical Journal, BMA House, London), Colin Begg (Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA), William Black (Department of Radiology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA), Harry Büller (Department of Vascular Medicine, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands), Gregory Campbell (Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, MD, USA), Frank Davidoff (Annals of Internal Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA), Jon Deeks (Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Institute of Health Sciences, Oxford), Paul Dieppe (Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol), Kenneth Fleming (John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford), Rijk van Ginkel (Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands), Afina Glas (Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands), Gordon Guyatt (Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada), James Hanley (Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada), Richard Horton (Lancet, London), Myriam Hunink (Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands), Jos Kleijnen (NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, York), Andre Knottnerus (Netherlands School of Primary Care Research, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands), Erik Magid (Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Amager Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark), Barbara McNeil (Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA), Matthew McQueen (Department of Laboratory Medicine, Hamilton Civic Hospitals, Hamilton, ON, Canada), Andrew Onderdonk (Channing Laboratory, Boston, MA, USA), John Overbeke (Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde, Amsterdam, Netherlands), Christopher Price (Barts and The London NHS Trust, London), Anthony Proto (Radiology Editorial Office, Richmond, VA, USA), Hans Reitsma (Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands), David Sackett (Trout Research and Education Centre, Irish Lake, ON, Canada), Gerard Sanders (Department of Clinical Chemistry, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands), Harold Sox (Annals of Internal Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA), Sharon Straus (Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada), Stephan Walter (Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada).