RT Journal
A1 Grady D, Berkowitz SA
T1 WHy is a good clinical prediction rule so hard to find?
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 2011
FD October 24
VO 171
IS 19
SP 1701
OP 1702
DO 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.482
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.482
AB 
Clinical prediction rules (CPRs) (also called clinical decision rules, prediction models, and risk scores) are tools designed to assist clinical decision making. Clinical prediction rules generally provide an estimate of the risk of disease, disease outcome, or the benefit of a diagnostic or therapeutic action.1- 2 For example, the well-known Framingham Risk Score3 uses age, sex, total cholesterol level, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol level, smoking status, blood pressure, and use of hypertension medication to estimate the risk of myocardial infarction or coronary death during the next 10 years. Because CPRs are designed to guide clinical care, it is important that they be accurate and reliable.