Characteristic | Frequency# |
Study design | |
Cross sectional | 7 |
Case–control | 1 |
Both | 1 |
Not reported | 1 |
Recruitment (sampling) method | |
Random sampling | 1 |
Consecutive and random | 1 |
Convenience sampling | 6 |
Convenience and random | 1 |
Not reported | 1 |
Verification¶ | |
Complete | 10 |
Blinded interpretation | |
Yes | 2 |
No | 4 |
Not reported | 4 |
#: n = 10 studies; ¶: of index test results by reference standard drug-susceptibility testing.