Why the C-statistic is not informative to evaluate early warning scores and what metrics to use

Metrics typically used to report the performance of an early warning score (EWS), such as the area under the receiver operator characteristic curve or C-statistic, are not useful for pre-implementation analyses. Because physiological deterioration has an extremely low prevalence of 0.02 per patient-...

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Autores principales: Romero-Brufau, Santiago, Huddleston, Jeanne M., Escobar, Gabriel J., Liebow, Mark
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4535737/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26268570
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13054-015-0999-1

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4535737/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26268570
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13054-015-0999-1

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