Prognostic Models in Medicine

Abstract

Medical prognostic (prediction) models (MPM) are essential in modern healthcare. They determine health and disease risks and are created to improve diagnosis and treatment outcomes. All MPMs fall into two categories. Diagnostic medical models (DMM) aim at assessing individual risk for a disease present, whereas predictive medical models (PMM) evaluate the risk for development of a disease and its complications in future. This review discusses DMM and PMM characteristics, conditions for their elaboration, criteria for medical application, also in hematology, as well as challenges of their creation and quality check.

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