About the Authors

Reem A. Mustafa

Affiliations Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Departments of Internal Medicine and Biomedical & Health Informatics, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, United States of America

Wojtek Wiercioch

Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Nancy Santesso

Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Adrienne Cheung

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of British Colombia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Barbara Prediger

Affiliation Center for Medical Biometry and Medical Informatics, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Tejan Baldeh

Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Alonso Carrasco-Labra

Affiliations Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Evidence-Based Dentistry Unit, Faculty of Dentistry, Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile

Romina Brignardello-Petersen

Affiliations Evidence-Based Dentistry Unit, Faculty of Dentistry, Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Ignacio Neumann

Affiliations Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Internal Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Patrick Bossuyt

Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Amit X. Garg

Affiliations Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

Monika Lelgemann

Affiliation Medizinischer Dienst des Spitzenverbandes Bund der Kranken-kassen e.V. (MDS) Theodor Althoff-Str. 47 45133 Essen, Germany

Diedrich Bühler

Affiliation Abteilung Medizin. GKV—Reinhardtstraße 28 10117 Berlin, Germany

Jan Brozek

Affiliations Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Holger J. Schünemann

schuneh@mcmaster.ca

Affiliations Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

None financial. Some authors are members of the GRADE working group. HJS is one of the co conveners of the GRADE working group.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RAM JB HJS WW NS AC BP ACL RBP IN PB AXG ML DB. Performed the experiments: RAM WW JB HJS NS AC BP ACL RBP IN PB AXG ML DB. Analyzed the data: RAM WW TB HJS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HJS JB. Wrote the paper: RAM HJS. Prepared material for user testing: RAM WW JB HJS. Initiated the overall work on diagnostic SoF Tables and GRADE evidence profiles for tests: HJS JB. Drafted the manuscript: RAM HJS. Critically revised the manuscript and approved the final draft before submission: RAM WW NS AC BP TB ACL RBP IN PB AXG ML DB JB HJS.