Background: Mortality prediction models are increasingly being adopted in the clinical setting, both to retrospectively assess quality of care and to prospectively inform clinical practice. An open question is whether a particular hospital should employ a model trained using a diverse nationwide dataset or use a model developed primarily from local data. The Veterans Affairs […]

Background: Mortality prediction models are increasingly being adopted in the clinical setting, both to retrospectively assess quality of care and to prospectively inform clinical practice. An open question is whether a particular hospital should employ a model trained using a diverse nationwide dataset or use a model developed primarily from local data. The Veterans Affairs […]