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TRIPOD: A New Reporting Baseline for Developing and Interpreting Prediction Models

A. Russell Localio, PhD; Catharine B. Stack, PhD, Deputy Editor, Statistics

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  • From Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Annals of Internal Medicine (Deputy Editor, Statistics).

    Disclosures: Disclosures can be viewed at www.acponline.org/authors/icmje/ConflictOfInterestForms.do?msNum=M14-2423.

    Requests for Single Reprints: A. Russell Localio, PhD, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 635 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021.

    Current Author Addresses: Dr. Localio: Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 635 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021.

    Dr. Stack: American College of Physicians, 190 N. Independence Mall West, Philadelphia, PA 19106.

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In this issue, the Transparent Reporting of a multivariable prediction model for Individual Prognosis Or Diagnosis (TRIPOD) investigators propose an annotated checklist for transparent reporting of prediction or prognostic models (1). The accompanying 22 000-word “Explanation and Elaboration” (2), with more than 500 references from statistics, epidemiology, and clinical decision making as well as from the applied clinical literature, should serve as an important resource for model developers. Applications span prediction (for diagnosis from cross-sectional data) and prognosis (for outcomes after longitudinal follow-up) across many clinical settings. These TRIPOD documents represent serious efforts to synthesize best practices for authors and readers.
Because the TRIPOD checklist seeks primarily to improve reporting, the immediate benefit should be more comprehensive expositions of model development and validation. Dissemination is broad: The checklist is being published simultaneously in 10 journals that span the disciplines of general medicine and clinical practice, obstetrics and gynecology, urology, surgery, cardiology, diabetes, cancer, clinical biomedical science, and epidemiology.
Longer-term benefits might flow from TRIPOD's success in leading the research and clinical communities to ask the right questions and consider the challenges in developing, validating, and using prediction models. As TRIPOD suggests, although there is no single correct method for modeling, authors should be able to justify their assumptions and describe their approaches. TRIPOD's comprehensive outline of modeling options should encourage informed choices and transparent presentations to further more general goals of reproducible research (3).
The current version of TRIPOD is not the final word...
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Localio AR, Stack CB. TRIPOD: A New Reporting Baseline for Developing and Interpreting Prediction Models. Ann Intern Med. 2015;162:73–74. doi: https://doi.org/10.7326/M14-2423

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 2015;162(1):73-74.

DOI: 10.7326/M14-2423

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