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Evaluation of clinical prediction models (part 1): from development to external validation

Evaluating the performance of a clinical prediction model is crucial to establish its predictive accuracy in the populations and settings intended for use. In this article, the first in a three part series, Collins and colleagues describe the importance of a meaningful evaluation using internal, internal-external, and external validation, as well as exploring heterogeneity, fairness, and generalisability in model performance.

Healthcare decisions for individuals are routinely made on the basis of risk or probability.1 Whether this probability is that a specific outcome or disease is present (diagnostic) or that a specific outcome will occur in the future (prognostic), it is important to know how these probabilities are estimated and whether they are accurate. Clinical prediction models estimate outcome risk for an individual conditional on their characteristics of multiple predictors (eg, age, family history, symptoms, blood pressure). Examples include the ISARIC (International ....

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