The uncertainty with using risk prediction models for individual decision making: an exemplar cohort study examining the prediction of cardiovascular disease in English primary care

BACKGROUND: Risk prediction models are commonly used in practice to inform decisions on patients’ treatment. Uncertainty around risk scores beyond the confidence interval is rarely explored. We conducted an uncertainty analysis of the QRISK prediction tool to evaluate the robustness of individual ri...

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Autores principales: Pate, Alexander, Emsley, Richard, Ashcroft, Darren M., Brown, Benjamin, van Staa, Tjeerd
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6636064/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31311543
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-019-1368-8

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6636064/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31311543
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-019-1368-8

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