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Doctors' survival predictions for terminally ill patients have been shown to be inaccurate and there has been an argument for less guesswork and more use of carefully constructed statistical indices. As statisticians, the authors are less confident in the predictive value of statistical models and indices for individual survival times. This paper discusses and illustrates a variety of measures which can be used to summarise predictive information available from a statistical model. The authors argue that models and statistical indices can be useful at the group or population level, but that human survival is so uncertain that even the best statistical analysis cannot provide single-number predictions of real use for individual patients.
Author(s): Henderson R, Keiding N
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Medical Ethics
Year: 2005
Volume: 31
Issue: 12
Pages: 703-706
Print publication date: 01/12/2005
ISSN (print): 0306-6800
ISSN (electronic): 1473-4257
Publisher: BMJ Group
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jme.2005.012427
DOI: 10.1136/jme.2005.012427
PubMed id: 16319233
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