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  1. Driven by alcohol consumption and obesity, the prevalence of non-viral liver disease in the UK is increasing. Due to its silent and slow nature, the progression of liver disease is currently unpredictable and ...

    Authors: Suvi Härmälä, Alastair O’Brien, Constantinos A. Parisinos, Kenan Direk, Laura Shallcross and Andrew Hayward
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2019 3:10
    Content type: Protocol Published on:

  2. Monochorionic twin pregnancies are at high risk of adverse outcomes, but it is not possible to predict which pregnancies will develop complications. The aim of the study was to evaluate, in monochorionic twin ...

    Authors: Fiona L. Mackie, Rebecca Whittle, R. Katie Morris, Jon Hyett, Richard D. Riley and Mark D. Kilby
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2019 3:9
    Content type: Research Published on:

  3. Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE), bacteria which are resistant to the carbapenem class of antibiotics, present an urgent public health risk. The objective of this study was to assess the potent...

    Authors: Eoin Moloney, Kai Wai Lee, Dawn Craig, A. Joy Allen, Sara Graziadio, Michael Power and Carolyn Steeds
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2019 3:8
    Content type: Research Published on:

  4. Assessment of diagnostic tests, broadly defined as any element that aids in the collection of additional information for further clarification of a patient’s health status, has increasingly become a critical i...

    Authors: Ingrid Arevalo-Rodriguez, Andrea C. Tricco, Karen R. Steingart, Barbara Nussbaumer-Streit, David Kaunelis, Pablo Alonso-Coello, Susan Baxter, Patrick M. Bossuyt and Javier Zamora
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2019 3:7
    Content type: Protocol Published on:

  5. In addition to direct slide microscopy, traditional culture method (TCM) has long been considered as a gold standard method for the diagnosis of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL). However, TCM is relatively expensi...

    Authors: Lensa Aberra, Adugna Abera, Tariku Belay, Amha Kebede, Endalamaw Gadisa and Geremew Tasew
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2019 3:4
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  6. Many studies have been performed to identify important prognostic factors for outcomes after rehabilitation of patients with chronic pain, and there is a need to synthesize them through systematic review. In t...

    Authors: Wilhelmus Johannes Andreas Grooten, Elena Tseli, Björn Olov Äng, Katja Boersma, Britt-Marie Stålnacke, Björn Gerdle and Paul Enthoven
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2019 3:5
    Content type: Research Published on:

  7. Clinical prediction models are often constructed using multicenter databases. Such a data structure poses additional challenges for statistical analysis (clustered data) but offers opportunities for model gene...

    Authors: L. Wynants, D. M. Kent, D. Timmerman, C. M. Lundquist and B. Van Calster
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2019 3:6
    Content type: Review Published on:

  8. Current American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) guidelines provide a class I recommendation for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and multivessel coronary artery disease (CAD) ...

    Authors: Andrew Perry, Matthew J. Chung, Eric Novak, Ronald Krone and David L. Brown
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2019 3:3
    Content type: Research Published on:

  9. Personalized, precision, and risk-based medicine are becoming increasingly important in medicine. These involve the use of information about the prognosis of a patient, to make individualized treatment decisio...

    Authors: Johanna A. A. G. Damen and Lotty Hooft
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2019 3:2
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  10. Low back pain is one of the most common and disabling health problems in Canada and internationally. In most cases, low back pain is a benign, self-limiting condition that can be managed with little diagnostic...

    Authors: Jill A. Hayden, Rachel Ogilvie, Samuel Alan Stewart, Simon French, Samuel Campbell, Kirk Magee, Patrick Slipp, George Wells and Ian Stiell
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2019 3:1
    Content type: Protocol Published on:

  11. Disease populations, clinical practice, and healthcare systems are constantly evolving. This can result in clinical prediction models quickly becoming outdated and less accurate over time. A potential solution...

    Authors: David A. Jenkins, Matthew Sperrin, Glen P. Martin and Niels Peek
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2018 2:23
    Content type: Review Published on:

  12. Lung cancer is a common cancer, with over 1.3 million cases worldwide each year. Early diagnosis using computed tomography (CT) screening has been shown to reduce mortality but also detect non-malignant nodule...

    Authors: Jason L. Oke, Lyndsey C. Pickup, Jérôme Declerck, Matthew E. Callister, David Baldwin, Jennifer Gustafson, Heiko Peschl, Sarim Ather, Maria Tsakok, Alan Exell and Fergus Gleeson
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2018 2:22
    Content type: Protocol Published on:

  13. Population-based risk prediction tools exist for individual chronic diseases. From a population health perspective, studying chronic diseases together provides a comprehensive view of the burden of disease in ...

    Authors: Ryan Ng, Rinku Sutradhar, Walter P. Wodchis and Laura C. Rosella
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2018 2:19
    Content type: Protocol Published on:

  14. Building prognostic models of clinical outcomes is an increasingly important research task and will remain a vital area in genomic medicine. Prognostic models of clinical outcomes are usually built and validat...

    Authors: Lira Pi and Susan Halabi
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2018 2:21
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  16. In recent years, there has been increasing focus on the earlier detection of deterioration in the clinical condition of hospital patients with the aim of instigating earlier treatment to reverse this deteriora...

    Authors: Matthew J. Reed, Megan McGrath, Polly L. Black, Steff Lewis, Christopher McCann, Stewart Whiting, Rachel O’Brien, Alison Grant, Beth Harrison, Laura Skyrme and Miranda Odam
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2018 2:18
    Content type: Protocol Published on:

  17. Chest X-ray has been the standard imaging method for patients suspected of non-traumatic pulmonary disease at the emergency department (ED) for years. Recently, ultra-low-dose chest computed tomography (ULD ch...

    Authors: Inge A. H. van den Berk, Maadrika M. N. P. Kanglie, Tjitske S. R. van Engelen, Shandra Bipat, Marcel G. W. Dijkgraaf, Patrick M. M. Bossuyt, Wouter de Monyé, Jan M. Prins and Jaap Stoker
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2018 2:20
    Content type: Protocol Published on:

    The Update to this article has been published in Trials 2020 21:407

  18. Influenza is an acute viral infection of the respiratory tract. A rapid confirmatory diagnosis of influenza is important, since it is highly transmissible and outbreaks of influenza within the hospital setting...

    Authors: A. J. Allen, R. A. O’Leary, S. Davis, S. Graziadio, W. S. Jones, A. J. Simpson, D. A. Price, L. Vale and M. Power
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2018 2:15
    Content type: Research Published on:

  19. The risk reclassification table assesses clinical performance of a biomarker in terms of movements across relevant risk categories. The Reclassification- Calibration (RC) statistic has been developed for binar...

    Authors: Olga V. Demler, Nina P. Paynter and Nancy R. Cook
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2018 2:16
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  20. Competing risks occur when populations may experience outcomes that either preclude or alter the probability of experiencing the main study outcome(s). Many standard survival analysis methods do not account fo...

    Authors: Benjamin G. Feakins, Emily C. McFadden, Andrew J. Farmer and Richard J. Stevens
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2018 2:13
    Content type: Research Published on:

  23. Diagnosing pulmonary embolism in suspected patients is notoriously difficult as signs and symptoms are non-specific. Different diagnostic strategies have been developed, usually combining clinical probability ...

    Authors: G.-J. Geersing, N. Kraaijpoel, H. R. Büller, S. van Doorn, N. van Es, G. Le Gal, M. V. Huisman, C. Kearon, J. A. Kline, K. G. M. Moons, M. Miniati, M. Righini, P.-M. Roy, S. J. van der Wall, P. S. Wells and F. A. Klok
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2018 2:10
    Content type: Protocol Published on:

  25. An important aim of clinical prediction models is to positively impact clinical decision making and subsequent patient outcomes. The impact on clinical decision making and patient outcome can be quantified in ...

    Authors: Teus H. Kappen, Wilton A. van Klei, Leo van Wolfswinkel, Cor J. Kalkman, Yvonne Vergouwe and Karel G. M. Moons
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2018 2:11
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  28. Head injury is an extremely common clinical presentation to hospital emergency departments (EDs). Ninety-five percent of patients present with an initial Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score of 13–15, indicating a n...

    Authors: Carl Marincowitz, Fiona E. Lecky, William Townend, Victoria Allgar, Andrea Fabbri and Trevor A. Sheldon
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2018 2:6
    Content type: Protocol Published on:

  29. In literature, not much emphasis has been placed on methods for analyzing repeatedly measured independent variables, even less so for the use in prediction modeling specifically. However, repeated measurements...

    Authors: Marieke Welten, Marlou L. A. de Kroon, Carry M. Renders, Ewout W. Steyerberg, Hein Raat, Jos W. R. Twisk and Martijn W. Heymans
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2018 2:5
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  30. Prognostic models incorporating survival analysis predict the risk (i.e., probability) of experiencing a future event over a specific time period. In 2002, Royston and Parmar described a type of flexible param...

    Authors: Ryan Ng, Kathy Kornas, Rinku Sutradhar, Walter P. Wodchis and Laura C. Rosella
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2018 2:4
    Content type: Review Published on:

  31. Clinical prediction rules (CPRs) should be externally validated by independent researchers. Although there are many cardiovascular CPRs, most have not been externally validated. It is not known why some CPRs a...

    Authors: Jong-Wook Ban, Richard Stevens and Rafael Perera
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2018 2:3
    Content type: Research Published on:

  32. Presenting results of diagnostic test accuracy research so that it is accessible to users is challenging. Commonly used accuracy measures (e.g. sensitivity and specificity) are poorly understood by health prof...

    Authors: Penny Whiting and Clare Davenport
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2018 2:2
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  33. Unexpected weight loss is a symptom of serious disease in primary care, for example between 1 in 200 and 1 in 30 patients with unexpected weight loss go on to develop cancer. However, it remains unclear how an...

    Authors: B. D. Nicholson, P. Aveyard, F. D. R. Hobbs, M. Smith, A. Fuller, R. Perera, W. Hamilton, S. Stevens and C. R. Bankhead
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2018 2:1
    Content type: Protocol Published on:

  34. Surrogate outcomes are often utilized when disease outcomes are difficult to directly measure. When a biological threshold effect exists, surrogate outcomes may only represent disease in specific subpopulation...

    Authors: Derek K. Smith, Loren E. Smith, Frederic T. Billings IV and Jeffrey D. Blume
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2017 1:21
    Content type: Research Published on:

  35. Clinical predictive models (CPMs) estimate the probability of clinical outcomes and hold the potential to improve decision-making and individualize care. The Tufts Predictive Analytics and Comparative Effectiv...

    Authors: Benjamin S. Wessler, Jessica Paulus, Christine M. Lundquist, Muhammad Ajlan, Zuhair Natto, William A. Janes, Nitin Jethmalani, Gowri Raman, Jennifer S. Lutz and David M. Kent
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2017 1:20
    Content type: Review Published on:

  36. A variety of statistics have been proposed as tools to help investigators assess the value of diagnostic tests or prediction models. The Brier score has been recommended on the grounds that it is a proper scor...

    Authors: Melissa Assel, Daniel D. Sjoberg and Andrew J. Vickers
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2017 1:19
    Content type: Research Published on:

  37. Research on prognostic prediction models frequently uses data from routine healthcare. However, potential misclassification of predictors when using such data may strongly affect the studied associations. Ther...

    Authors: S. van Doorn, T. B. Brakenhoff, K. G. M. Moons, F. H. Rutten, A. W. Hoes, R. H. H. Groenwold and G. J. Geersing
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2017 1:18
    Content type: Research Published on:

  38. Disease prevalence is rarely explicitly considered in the early stages of the development of novel prognostic tests. Rather, researchers use the area under the receiver operating characteristic (AUROC) as the ...

    Authors: Grégoire Thomas, Louise C. Kenny, Philip N. Baker and Robin Tuytten
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2017 1:17
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  39. Pre-eclampsia, a condition with raised blood pressure and proteinuria is associated with an increased risk of maternal and offspring mortality and morbidity. Early identification of mothers at risk is needed t...

    Authors: John Allotey, Kym I. E. Snell, Claire Chan, Richard Hooper, Julie Dodds, Ewelina Rogozinska, Khalid S. Khan, Lucilla Poston, Louise Kenny, Jenny Myers, Basky Thilaganathan, Lucy Chappell, Ben W. Mol, Peter Von Dadelszen, Asif Ahmed, Marcus Green…
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2017 1:16
    Content type: Protocol Published on:

  40. Ignoring treatments in prognostic model development or validation can affect the accuracy and transportability of models. We aim to quantify the extent to which the effects of treatment have been addressed in ...

    Authors: Romin Pajouheshnia, Johanna A. A. G. Damen, Rolf H. H. Groenwold, Karel G. M. Moons and Linda M. Peelen
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2017 1:15
    Content type: Review Published on:

  41. Improved dementia identification is a global health priority, and general practitioners (GPs) are often the first point of contact for people with concerns about their cognition. However, GPs often express unc...

    Authors: Harriet A. Hunt, Sanne Van Kampen, Yemisi Takwoingi, David J. Llewellyn, Mark Pearson and Christopher J. Hyde
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2017 1:14
    Content type: Protocol Published on:

  42. Diagnostic clinical prediction rules (CPRs) are worthwhile if they improve patient outcomes or provide benefits such as reduced resource use, without harming patients. We conducted a systematic review to asses...

    Authors: Sharon L. Sanders, John Rathbone, Katy J. L. Bell, Paul P. Glasziou and Jenny A. Doust
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2017 1:13
    Content type: Review Published on:

  43. Stability in baseline risk and estimated predictor effects both geographically and temporally is a desirable property of clinical prediction models. However, this issue has received little attention in the met...

    Authors: Peter C. Austin, David van Klaveren, Yvonne Vergouwe, Daan Nieboer, Douglas S. Lee and Ewout W. Steyerberg
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2017 1:12
    Content type: Research Published on:

  44. The use of multinomial logistic regression models is advocated for modeling the associations of covariates with three or more mutually exclusive outcome categories. As compared to a binary logistic regression ...

    Authors: Maarten van Smeden, Joris AH de Groot, Stavros Nikolakopoulos, Loes CM Bertens, Karel GM Moons and Johannes B. Reitsma
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2017 1:8
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  45. Authors: Gowri Gopalakrishna, Miranda Langendam, Rob Scholten, Patrick Bossuyt, Mariska Leeflang, Anna Noel-Storr, James Thomas, Iain Marshall, Byron Wallace, Penny Whiting, Clare Davenport, Mariska Leeflang, Gowri GopalaKrishna, Isabel de Salis, Sue Mallett, Robert Wolff…
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2017 1:11
    Content type: Erratum Published on:

    The original article was published in Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2017 1:7

  46. The purpose of the predictors for major cardiovascular outcomes in stable ischaemic heart disease (PREMAC) study is exploratory and hypothesis generating. We want to identify biochemical quantities which—condi...

    Authors: Per Winkel, Janus Christian Jakobsen, Jørgen Hilden, Theis Lange, Gorm Boje Jensen, Erik Kjøller, Ahmad Sajadieh, Jens Kastrup, Hans Jørn Kolmos, Anders Larsson, Johan Ärnlöv and Christian Gluud
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2017 1:10
    Content type: Protocol Published on:

  47. Prognosis research refers to the investigation of association between a baseline health state, patient characteristic and future outcomes. The findings of several prognostic studies can be summarized in system...

    Authors: Davide Matino, Chatree Chai-Adisaksopha and Alfonso Iorio
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2017 1:9
    Content type: Review Published on:

  48. Early-onset pre-eclampsia with raised blood pressure and protein in the urine before 34 weeks’ gestation is one of the leading causes of maternal deaths in the UK. The benefits to the child from prolonging the...

    Authors: John Allotey, Nadine Marlin, Ben W. Mol, Peter Von Dadelszen, Wessel Ganzevoort, Joost Akkermans, Asif Ahmed, Jane Daniels, Jon Deeks, Khaled Ismail, Ann Marie Barnard, Julie Dodds, Sally Kerry, Carl Moons, Khalid S. Khan, Richard D. Riley…
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2017 1:6
    Content type: Protocol Published on:

  49. Authors: Gowri Gopalakrishna, Miranda Langendam, Rob Scholten, Patrick Bossuyt, Mariska Leeflang, Anna Noel-Storr, James Thomas, Iain Marshall, Byron Wallace, Penny Whiting, Clare Davenport, Mariska Leeflang, Gowri GopalaKrishna, Isabel de Salis, Sue Mallett, Robert Wolff…
    Citation: Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2017 1(Suppl 1):7
    Content type: Meeting abstracts Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 1 Supplement 1

    The Erratum to this article has been published in Diagnostic and Prognostic Research 2017 1:11

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