Background Before considering whether to use a multivariable (diagnostic or prognostic)
prediction model, it is essential that its performance be evaluated in data that were not used to …

Background Survivors of critical illness often have a prolonged and disabling form of cognitive
impairment that remains inadequately characterized. Methods We enrolled adults with …

Background Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is a common complication of preterm birth.
Very different models using clinical parameters at an early postnatal age to predict BPD …

Context The evidence that measurement of the common carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT)
improves the risk scores in prediction of the absolute risk of cardiovascular events is …

Context Prophylactic corticosteroids are often administered during cardiac surgery to attenuate
the inflammatory response to cardiopulmonary bypass and surgical trauma; however, …

Materials and Methods This retrospective cohort study included children undergoing pediatric
urological surgery in the years 1987, 1991, 1993, and 1995 in the academic pediatric …

… Dr Moons reported receiving travel expenses from the Royal Academy of Statistics and Bayer
and that his institution has received grants from the Netherlands Organization of Scientific …

… Exclusion criteria were emergency surgery, (possible) pregnancy, ASA class IV, morbid
obesity (weight >120 kg), renal or liver disease precluding use of either anesthetic technique, …

PURPOSE: To determine the accuracy of gadolinium-enhanced breath-hold magnetic
resonance (MR) angiography in the diagnosis of renal artery stenosis and visualization of …

Results All multiple-imputation methods except the basic one more closely approximated
actual BCr than did eGFR 75. Total AKI misclassification was lower with multiple imputation (…