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1. How To Establish And Evaluate Clinical Prediction Models Dr. Nancy Agnes, Head, Technical Operations, Tutorsindia info@ tutorsindia.com Keywords: models are all widely used approaches. The secret to statistical analysis, data Statistical analysis help, clinical research modelling, and project design is assessing analysis, data collection services, clinical and verifying prediction models' efficacy. prediction models, multiple linear It is also the most difficult aspect of data regression analysis, logistic regression analysis technology. analysis, Clinical Research & Analytics, statistics services, clinical trial data analysis, External Validation Of Clinical II. CLINICAL PREDICTION MODEL Prediction Models A clinical prediction model is a tool used I. INTRODUCTION in healthcare to measure estimates of the The use of a parametric/semi- likelihood of the future course of a specific parametric/non-parametric mathematical patient outcome using multiple clinical or model to estimate the probability that a non-clinical predictors. A realistic subject currently has a certain condition or checklist for developing a valid prediction the possibility of a certain outcome in the model is presented in a clinical prediction future is referred to as a clinical predictive model. A clinical prediction model can be model. Various regression analysis used in various clinical contexts, including approaches are used to model clinical screening for asymptomatic illness, prediction models, and the statistical forecasting future events such as disease, nature of regression analysis is to find and assisting doctors in their decision- "quantitative causality." To put it another making and health education. Despite the positive effects of clinical prediction way, regression analysis is a quantitative models on practice, prediction modelling assessment of how much X impacts Y. Multiple linear regression models, logistic is a difficult process that necessitates regression models, and Cox regression Copyright © 2021 TutorsIndia. All rights 1

2. meticulous statistical analysis and sound clinical judgments. III. STEPS TO ESTABLISHING A S.NO DISEASE SYMPTOMS CLINICAL PREDICTION MODEL There exist several types of research Unusual lump, 1 CANCER changes in the detailing the methods to construct clinical mole, cough prediction models. However, there is no and proper method to construct the prediction hoarseness, model in medicine. The construction and unusual evaluation of prediction models are diarrhoea and constipation classified into five steps. Step 1:Gathering the ideations and CARDIOVASCULAR Chest pain, 2 questions for enhancing the model. DISEASE chest tightness, shortness of It incorporates structuring the research breath, questions, such as finding the target numbness and weakness. variable for predicting which age group of the targeted people you want to predict. Pain in hip or 3 ARTHRITIS For instance, gathering one patient details joint, swelling, colour changes and use it as a trained data set to test the in the skin, other data set of another patient's details. loss of [1]. appetite. Step 2: Selection of data Darkened area 4 DIABETES Data collection is a vital part of statistical of skin, High blood pressure or clinical research. Nevertheless, the and cholesterol perfect data and a perfect model can't levels exist. It would be nice to look for the most appropriate. The primary dataset with the endpoint of the study and all key predictors may not be Copyright © 2021 TutorsIndia. All rights 2

3. available at all the time. Secondary or The Bayesian network was implemented to administrative data sources are mandatory. manipulate the independent variables of Based on the various data types of some diseases in the crucial stage of datasets, prediction models can be utilized. treatment. This model predicts and offers a way to handle the disease along with [2] For instance, the epidemiology study is preventive measures [3]. based on the Data Mining systematic Step 4: Generating model approach. Step 3: Ways to handle variables There are no proper rules to select a particular model for the statistical analysis. Most of the time, researchers may face There are some standard methods to build challenging situations where the variables a model using Linear regression analysis, are highly correlated to each other, logistic regression analysis, and Cox excluded in the study. Variables don't models. Sometimes the clinical data show statistical significance or the petite encounters over-fitting of the model and effect size. But it will contribute to the its results in as estimates. This over-fitting predictive model. Researchers will handle issue can be detected using Akaike the missing data problems, categorical Information Criteria or Bayesian data, etc., before getting the interference. Information Criteria. The smaller AIC and BIC values result in a good fit for the model. [4] Using Multivariate prediction IV. CLINICAL PREDICTION MODELS models for analyzing the different CODE: characteristics of various patients. Code number Disease/ Step 5: Evaluation and validation of the Deficiency model After building the model, it is ICD-10-R50 fever necessary to evaluate and validate the predictive power of the model. The key ICD-R05 cough components that evaluate the model are calibration which plots the proportion, and ICD-10-CM- pain R52 discrimination classifies the events like success or failure. There are two types of ICD-9-CM- headache data validation, namely internal and 784.0 external validation of the model. Internal Copyright © 2021 TutorsIndia. All rights 3

4. validation evaluates the model within the the scrutiny of around 33 research articles data, whereas external validation can be and found that most of the validation is done using the re-sampling technique, external validation and identified the usually through bootstrapping. It means validity using the calibration slope. you are creating or generating new data sets with similar characteristics to the original data and validating the study's method through the newly created or bootstrapped data. Further, there are several statistical measures to evaluate the model. Some of them are ROC curve, AUC curve, sensitivity and specificity, Figure 2: This flow diagram illustrates the likelihood ratio, R square value, progress through the various phases of the calibration plot, c-index, Hosmer- CARDAMON phase II clinical trial, Lemeshow test, AIC, BIC, etc. including the impact of COVID‐19 on the 70 patients on maintenance K across the two treatment arms at the start of the lockdown period. The 15 patients who stopped K maintenance joined the 170 patients who were already on long‐term follow‐up on 24 March 2020, bringing the number up to a total of 185. SCT, stem cell transplantation; K, carfilzomib; C, cyclophosphamide; d, dexamethasone [6]. Figure 1: Slope of Calibration plot – V. FUTURE SCOPE: Source: Stevens and Poppe (2020) Based on the patient details, we can Besides, Stevens and Poppe (2020) predict the further severe causation of suggested the Cox- calibration slope using disease in the future. By gathering the data a logistic regression model instead of from a single patient may help to predict using the predictive model's calibration other similar patients for better treatment. slope. This suggestion has been made after Copyright © 2021 TutorsIndia. All rights 4

5. prediction models: feature selection methods in Big data support for manipulating vast data mining could improve the results." amounts of clinical trials, without Journal of clinical epidemiology 71 (2016): 76- complexitsimultaneously with high 85. accuracy. 3. Chowdhury, Mohammad Ziaul Islam, and Tanvir C. Turin. "Variable selection strategies and their importance in clinical prediction modeling." Family medicine and community TABLE 1 Concepts and Techniques of health 8.1 (2020). Clinical prediction models: 4. Iba, Katsuhiro, et al. "Re-evaluation of the comparative effectiveness of bootstrap-based S.NO METHODS PURPOSES REFERENCES correction optimism methods in the development of multivariable clinical 1 Data Collection To train and test the [1] prediction models." BMC Medical Research using Surveys data between two Methodology 21.1 (2021): 1-14. patients 5. Stevens, R. J. and Poppe, K. K. (2020). Validation of Clinical Prediction Models: What 2 Epidemiology study Data mining of data [2] does the "Calibration Slope" Really Measure?. sets Journal of clinical epidemiology, 118, pp. 93– 99. 3 Bayesian Network To predict 6. the [3] Camilleri, Marquita, et al. "COVID‐19 and characteristics based myeloma clinical research–experience from the on the independent CARDAMON clinical trial." British Journal of Haematology 192.1 (2021): e14. variable 4 Multivariate analysis To manipulate the [4] independent variables REFERENCES: 1. Schmidt, André, et al. "Improving prognostic accuracy in subjects at clinical high risk for psychosis: systematic review of predictive models and meta-analytical sequential testing simulation." Bulletin 43.2 Schizophrenia (2017): 375-388. 2. Bagherzadeh-Khiabani, Farideh, et al. "A tutorial on variable selection for clinical Copyright © 2021 TutorsIndia. All rights 5