Informative presence and observation in routine health data: A review of methodology for clinical risk prediction.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Informative presence (IP) is the phenomenon whereby the presence or absence of patient data is potentially informative with respect to their health condition, with informative observation (IO) being the longitudinal equivalent. These phenomena predominantly exist within routinely collected healthcare data, in which data collection is driven by the clinical requirements of patients and clinicians. The extent to which IP and IO are considered when using such data to develop clinical prediction models (CPMs) is unknown, as is the existing methodology aiming at handling these issues. This review aims to synthesize such existing methodology, thereby helping identify an agenda for future methodological work.

Materials and methods

A systematic literature search was conduc

SUBMITTER: Sisk R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7810439 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature