Design and implementation of a standardized framework to generate and evaluate patient-level prediction models using observational healthcare data.

Journal: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To develop a conceptual prediction model framework containing standardized steps and describe the corresponding open-source software developed to consistently implement the framework across computational environments and observational healthcare databases to enable model sharing and reproducibility.

Authors

  • Jenna M Reps
    Janssen Research and Development, Raritan, NJ, USA.
  • Martijn J Schuemie
    Janssen Research and Development, Raritan, NJ, USA.
  • Marc A Suchard
    Department of Biomathematics, UCLA School of Medicine, CA, USA.
  • Patrick B Ryan
    Janssen Research and Development, Raritan, NJ, USA.
  • Peter R Rijnbeek
    Department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam,The Netherlands.