TY - GEN AU - Guerra, Beniamino AU - Haile, Sarah R AU - Lamprecht, Bernd AU - Ramirez, Ana S AU - Martinez-Camblor, Pablo AU - Kaiser, Bernhard AU - Alfageme, Inmaculada AU - Almagro, Pere AU - Casanova, Ciro AU - Esteban-Gonzalez, Cristobal AU - Soler-Cataluna, Juan J AU - de-Torres, Juan P AU - Miravitlles, Marc AU - Celli, Bartolome R AU - Marin, Jose M AU - ter Riet, Gerben AU - Sobradillo, Patricia AU - Lange, Peter AU - Garcia-Aymerich, Judith AU - Anto, Josep M AU - Turner, Alice M AU - Han, Meilan K AU - Langhammer, Arnulf AU - Leivseth, Linda AU - Bakke, Per AU - Johannessen, Ane AU - Oga, Toru AU - García-Cosío, Borja AU - Ancochea-Bermudez, Julio AU - Echazarreta, Andres AU - Roche, Nicolas AU - Burgel, Pierre-Regis AU - Sin, Don D AU - Soriano, Joan B AU - Puhan, Milo A AU - 3CIA Collaboration PY - 2018 DO - 10.1186/s12916-018-1013-y SN - 1741-7015 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/22537 AB - Background: External validations and comparisons of prognostic models or scores are a prerequisite for their use in routine clinical care but are lacking in most medical fields including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Our aim was to... LA - eng PB - BioMed Central (BMC) KW - COPD KW - Prognostic scores KW - Large-scale external validation KW - Performance comparison KW - Network meta-analysis KW - Prognosis KW - Aged KW - Male KW - Severity of Illness Index KW - Female KW - Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive KW - Humans KW - Cohort Studies KW - Middle Aged TI - Large-scale external validation and comparison of prognostic models: an application to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease TY - research article ER -