A protocol for the VISION study: An indiVidual patient data meta-analysis of randomised trials comparing MRI-targeted biopsy to standard transrectal ultraSound guided bIopsy in the detection of prOstate cancer

• Veeru Kasivisvanathan ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: veeru.kasi@ucl.ac.uk

  Affiliations Division of Surgery and Interventional Sciences, University College London, United Kingdom, Department of Urology, University College London Hospitals Trust, London, United Kingdom

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• Vinson Wai-Shun Chan,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Surgery and Interventional Sciences, University College London, United Kingdom, School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6108-9315

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• Keiran D. Clement,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Urology, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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• Brooke Levis,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Prognosis Research, School of Medicine, Keele University, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

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• Masoom Haider,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Toronto General Hospital, Department of Radiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Ridhi Agarwal,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Test Evaluation Research Group, Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, and NIHR Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Mark Emberton,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Surgery and Interventional Sciences, University College London, United Kingdom, Department of Urology, University College London Hospitals Trust, London, United Kingdom, NIHR UCLH/UCL Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre, London, United Kingdom

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• Gregory R. Pond,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Yemisi Takwoingi,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Test Evaluation Research Group, Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, and NIHR Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Laurence Klotz ,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ LK and CMM share joint senior authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Division of Urology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Caroline M. Moore ,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ LK and CMM share joint senior authorship on this work.

  Affiliations Division of Surgery and Interventional Sciences, University College London, United Kingdom, Department of Urology, University College London Hospitals Trust, London, United Kingdom

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• VISION study collaborators

  ¶Membership of the VISION study collaborators is listed in the Acknowledgments.

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