Addressing practical issues of predictive models translation into everyday practice and public health management: a combined model to predict the risk of type 2 diabetes improves incidence prediction and reduces the prevalence of missing risk predictions.
Martina VettorettiEnrico LongatoAlessandro ZandonàYan LiJosé Antonio PagánDavid SiscovickMercedes R CarnethonAlain G BertoniAndrea FacchinettiBarbara Di CamilloPublished in: BMJ open diabetes research & care (2021)
Leveraging on existing literature T2D predictive models, a simple approach based on risk score rescaling and averaging was shown to provide accurate and robust incidence predictions, overcoming the problem of recalibration and missing predictions in practical application of predictive models.