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The clinical usefulness of prognostic prediction models in critical illness
Critical illness is any immediately life-threatening disease or trauma and results in several million deaths globally every year. Responsive hospital systems for managing critical illness include quick and accurate identification of the critically ill patients. Prognostic prediction models are widely used for this aim. To be clinically useful, a model should have good predictive performance, often measured using discrimination and calibration. This is not sufficient though: a model also needs to be tested in the setting where it will be used, it should be user-friendly and should guide decision making and actions. The clinical usefulness and impact on patient outcomes of prediction models has not been greatly studied. The focus of research should shift from attempts to optimise the precision of models to real-world intervention studies to compare the performance of models and their impacts on outcomes.
History
Journal
European Journal of Internal MedicineVolume
45Pagination
37-40Location
NetherlandsPublisher DOI
ISSN
0953-6205eISSN
1879-0828Language
enPublication classification
C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalPublisher
Elsevier BVUsage metrics
Keywords
Critical careCritical illnessDecision support techniquesEmergency medical servicesHospital rapid response teamPrognosisCritical IllnessDecision Support TechniquesEmergency Medical ServicesHospital Rapid Response TeamHumansModels, StatisticalRisk AdjustmentClinical Research4.2 Evaluation of markers and technologies4 Detection, screening and diagnosis3 Good Health and Well Being