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New Prognostic Models for Older Adults: Alex Lee, James Deardorff, Sei Lee
Dr. Faith Fitzgerald once quipped that prognostic modeling is the "punctilious quantification of the amorphous." She has a point. Prognosis is inherently uncertain. As Alex Lee says on our podcast today, all prognostic models will be wrong (in some circumstances and for some patients); our job is to make prognostic models that are clinically useful. As Sei Lee notes, the argument for developing prognostic models has won the day, and we increasingly use prognostic scores in clinical decision making. What makes prognostic models for mortality different from models used for anticoagulation or…
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