Predicting mortality in acutely hospitalised older patients: the impact of model dimensionality
Abstract Background The prediction of long-term mortality following acute illness can be unreliable for older patients, inhibiting the delivery of targeted clinical interventions. The difficulty plausibly arises from the complex, multifactorial nature of the underlying biology in this population, wh...
Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , |
---|---|
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
BMC
2023-01-01
|
Series: | BMC Medicine |
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-022-02698-2 |