Prediction models for COVID-19: Are they reliable?
20 Apr 2020
byStephen Padilla
Prediction models for the diagnosis and prognosis of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) have sprung up and appear to show excellent discriminative performance. However, a recent study has found that these models are at high risk of bias due to nonrepresentative selection of control patients, exclusion of those who had not experienced the event of interest by end of study, and model overfitting.
