Bio-Med Reference

Clinical Prediction Guides Added to PubMed® Clinical Queries

"A a new clinical study category called Clinical Prediction Guides has been added to the PubMed Clinical Queries page. (See Figure 1.) "

"Clinical Prediction Guides pertain to the prediction of some aspect of
a disease or condition and have been advocated as a mechanism for
enhancing clinical judgement. Clinical prediction studies develop or
validate rules, guides, indexes, equations, scales, scores or models to
predict a diagnosis, prognosis, risk (etiology), therapeutic response,
therapeutic drug level or clinical outcome. An example of a clinical
prediction guide is the Ottawa ankle rule. Can Fam Physician. 1996 Mar;42:478-80."

Full Announcement: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj05/mj05_clin_pred_guide.html

-Chad