School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
Braz J Phys Ther. 2024 May-Jun;28(3):101082. doi: 10.1016/j.bjpt.2024.101082. Epub 2024 May 20.
Physical therapists use diagnostic tests in a variety of settings. Choosing the best diagnostic test to apply in a particular situation can be difficult. The choice of diagnostic test should be informed, at least in part, by evidence of test accuracy. Finding evidence of diagnostic test accuracy has, until recently, been challenging. Ideally, there would exist a database that comprehensively indexes evidence on diagnostic tests relevant to physical therapy practice, is free to access, and is easy to use.
This Masterclass will describe the DiTA (Diagnostic Test Accuracy) database (dita.org.au) including its development and search interface, and provide advice on how to search and retrieve records.
DiTA indexes more than 2400 primary studies and systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy relevant to physical therapy practice. Users can search DiTA using text fields and dropdown lists to find evidence of diagnostic test accuracy. The database is freely accessible on the internet. Since its launch, DiTA has been accessed from almost every country in the world, the largest number of searches having been conducted from Brazil.
物理治疗师在各种环境中使用诊断测试。选择在特定情况下应用的最佳诊断测试可能具有挑战性。诊断测试的选择至少应部分基于测试准确性的证据。直到最近，寻找诊断测试准确性的证据一直具有挑战性。理想情况下，应该存在一个数据库，该数据库全面索引与物理治疗实践相关的诊断测试的证据，免费访问且易于使用。
本课程将介绍 DiTA（诊断测试准确性）数据库（dita.org.au），包括其开发和搜索界面，并提供有关如何搜索和检索记录的建议。
DiTA 索引了超过 2400 篇与物理治疗实践相关的诊断测试准确性的原始研究和系统评价。用户可以使用文本字段和下拉列表搜索 DiTA 来查找诊断测试准确性的证据。该数据库可在互联网上免费访问。自推出以来，DiTA 已在世界上几乎每个国家/地区被访问，其中来自巴西的搜索量最大。
