GRADE Concept Paper 8: Judging the certainty of discrimination performance estimates of prognostic models in a body of validation studies

Prognostic models incorporate multiple prognostic factors to estimate the likelihood of future events for individual patients based on their prognostic factor values. Evaluating these models crucially involves conducting studies to assess their predictive performance, like discrimination. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of these evaluation studies play an essential role in selecting models for clinical practice.

Source: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology - April 2, 2024 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Farid Foroutan, Martin Mayer, Gordon Guyatt, Richard D. Riley, Reem Mustafa, Nina Kreuzberger, Nicole Skoetz, Andrea Darzi, Ana Carolina Alba, Fabrice Mowbray, Daniel G. Rayner, Holger Schunemann, Alfonso Iorio Tags: Original Article Source Type: research