PRIDASE 2024 guidelines for reporting diagnostic accuracy studies in endodontics: A consensus-based development

Venkateshbabu Nagendrababu; Maria Pigg; Henry F Duncan; Paul V Abbott; Ashraf F Fouad; Casper Kruse; Shanon Patel; Dan K Rechenberg; Frank C Setzer; Giampiero Rossi-Fedele; Paul M H Dummer

doi:10.1111/iej.14075

PRIDASE 2024 guidelines for reporting diagnostic accuracy studies in endodontics: A consensus-based development

Int Endod J. 2024 Apr 26. doi: 10.1111/iej.14075. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Restorative Dentistry, College of Dental Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
² Department of Endodontics, Faculty of Odontology, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden.
³ Division of Restorative Dentistry, Dublin Dental University Hospital, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
⁴ UWA Dental School, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
⁵ University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
⁶ Section of Oral Radiology and Endodontics, Department of Dentistry and Oral Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
⁷ Center for Oral Health in Rare Diseases, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.
⁸ Department of Endodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral and Craniofacial Sciences at Kings' College London, London, UK.
⁹ Department of Conservative and Preventive Dentistry, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
¹⁰ University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
¹¹ Adelaide Dental School, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
¹² School of Dentistry, College of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.

PMID: 38669132
DOI: 10.1111/iej.14075

Abstract

Studies investigating the accuracy of diagnostic tests should provide data on how effectively they identify or exclude disease in order to inform clinicians responsible for managing patients. This consensus-based project was undertaken to develop reporting guidelines for authors submitting manuscripts, which describe studies that have evaluated the accuracy of diagnostic tests in endodontics. These guidelines are known as the Preferred Reporting Items for Diagnostic Accuracy Studies in Endodontics (PRIDASE) 2024 guidelines. A nine-member steering committee created an initial checklist by integrating and modifying items from the Standards for Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy (STARD) 2015 checklist and the Clinical and Laboratory Images in Publications (CLIP) principles, as well as adding a number of new items specific to the specialty of endodontics. Thereafter, the steering committee formed the PRIDASE Delphi Group (PDG) and the PRIDASE Online Meeting Group (POMG) in order to collect expert feedback on the preliminary draft checklist. Members of the Delphi group engaged in an online Delphi process to reach consensus on the clarity and suitability of the items in the checklist. The online meeting group then held an in-depth discussion on the online Delphi-generated items via the Zoom platform on 20 October 2023. According to the feedback obtained, the steering committee revised the PRIDASE checklist, which was then piloted by several authors when preparing manuscripts describing diagnostic accuracy studies in endodontics. Feedback from this process resulted in the final version of the PRIDASE 2024 checklist, which has 11 sections and 66 items. Authors are encouraged to use the PRIDASE 2024 guidelines when developing manuscripts on diagnostic accuracy in endodontics in order to improve the quality of reporting in this area. Editors of relevant journals will be invited to include these guidelines in their instructions to authors.

Keywords: consensus; diagnostic accuracy studies; endodontics; guidelines; root canal treatment.