Fig 1.
Study Flow.
Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of patients included in the studies
Fig 2.
Summary receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves for the joint meta-analysis of 21 studies.
Results of the joint meta-analysis of 21 studies are presented by the overall posterior sensitivity and specificity with the corresponding 95% credible region (CI)
Fig 3.
Summary receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves for different reference standard test.
Results of the joint meta-analysis are presented by the overall posterior sensitivity and specificity with the corresponding 95% credible region (CI) IASP, the International Association for the study of pain (IASP).
Table 2.
Meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy for bone scintigraphy.
Table 3.
Factors associated with positive bone scintigraphy.