Large-scale external validation and comparison of prognostic models: an application to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Abstract Background External validations and comparisons of prognostic models or scores are a prerequisite for their use in routine clinical care but are lacking in most medical fields including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Our aim was to externally validate and concurrently compare...

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Main Authors: Beniamino Guerra, Sarah R. Haile, Bernd Lamprecht, Ana S. Ramírez, Pablo Martinez-Camblor, Bernhard Kaiser, Inmaculada Alfageme, Pere Almagro, Ciro Casanova, Cristóbal Esteban-González, Juan J. Soler-Cataluña, Juan P. de-Torres, Marc Miravitlles, Bartolome R. Celli, Jose M. Marin, Gerben ter Riet, Patricia Sobradillo, Peter Lange, Judith Garcia-Aymerich, Josep M. Antó, Alice M. Turner, Meilan K. Han, Arnulf Langhammer, Linda Leivseth, Per Bakke, Ane Johannessen, Toru Oga, Borja Cosio, Julio Ancochea-Bermúdez, Andres Echazarreta, Nicolas Roche, Pierre-Régis Burgel, Don D. Sin, Joan B. Soriano, Milo A. Puhan, for the 3CIA collaboration
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-03-01
Series:BMC Medicine
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12916-018-1013-y