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The Cochrane Diagnostic Test Accuracy Initiavive or Working Group is a working group that is constituted by the Steering Group to work out how diagnostic reviews will be implemented in the Cochrane Collaboration. We will work on the Handbook for diagnostic test reviews and we will collaborate with the CRGs in the editorial process of these reviews.

To be able to give Cochrane Review Groups and authors all the support they may need, four Support Units will be founded. two of these are already active: the UK Support Unit (UKSU) for Cochrane entities based in the UK and Ireland; and the Continental Europe Support Unit (CESU) for Cochrane entities based on mainland Europe.

The Cochrane Diagnostic Test Accuracy Working Group (DTAWG) is closely related to the Screening and Diagnostic Test Methods Group (SDTMG), but the latter has a different function. Although the same people are involved in both, the SDTMG's focus is on research and quality control, while the DTAWG's focus is more on the practical implementation of diagnostic reviews within the Cochrane Library.

CESU is located in the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam.
Phone: +31-20-566 5602
E-mail: cesu@amc.uva.nl

UKSU is located at the University of Birmingham
Phone:
E-mail: uksu@contacts.bham.ac.uk

More info about CESU and UKSU can be found on separate pages.