Extracted data from included studies examining the ability of the handheld metal detector to identify and localise ingested coins in children
| Authors | Coins correctly identified | Coins "missed" | Coins correctly localised to chest or abdomen | Coins incorrectly localised to chest or abdomen | MFBs correctly excluded | False positives for an ingested MFB | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| *Studies investigating suspected coin ingestion only; †only data for localisation to the chest was collected; ‡N/A, data could not be extracted from paper and author could not be contacted. | ||||||||||||
| Muensterer OJ et al | 25 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 22 | 2 | ||||||
| Schalamon J et al | 32 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 6 | 0 | ||||||
| Bassett KE et al | 53 | 1 | 81 | 1 | 8* | 0 | ||||||
| Doraiswamy NV et al | 146 | 0 | 138 | 0 | 48 | 8 | ||||||
| Seikel K et al | 50 | 0 | 50† | 0† | ‡ | 6 | ||||||
| Tidey B et al | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||||||
| Sachetti A et al | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 6 | 0 | ||||||
| Biehler JL et al | 16 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 3* | 0 | ||||||
| Ros S et al | 10 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 3* | 0 | ||||||
| Gooden E et al | – | – | 9 | 0 | – | – | ||||||
| Younger R et al | – | – | 26 | 0 | – | – | ||||||
| Total | 351 | 2 | 417 | 1 | 101 (14*) | 16 | ||||||