Methodological Quality of Pediatric Clinical Prediction Rules

Methodological Quality of Pediatric Clinical Prediction Rules

Clinical prediction rules (CPRs) are tools designed to assist medical decision making and derived from an original piece of research. CPRs are intended for the use of clinicians when caring for patients to help them to make diagnostic and/or therapeutic bedside decisions. CPRs have been developed in the field of pediatrics since the 1990s, and we aimed to review and compare pediatric CPRs metho...

Clinical prediction rules and pediatric infectious diseases.

Clinical prediction rules (CPR) are tools including appropriately weighted clinical aspects (history, physical examination and/or complementary tests) showing the odds for a specific diagnosis or prognosis. Their development includes a complex and strict process to achieve the scientific strength which supports use in clinical settings. Although CPR may be developed for almost any clinical situ...

Clinical prediction rules.

In many ways much of the art of medicine boils down to playing the percentages and predicting outcomes. For example, when clinicians take a history from a patient they ask the questions that they think are the most likely to provide them with the information they need to make a diagnosis. They might then order the tests that they think are the most likely to support or refute their various diff...

Clinical prediction rules.

Prediction rules must be developed according to methodological guidelines.