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April 2, 2025Frontiers in Public HealthOpen Access

Risk prediction models for mortality in patients with multimorbidity: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Why the study?

The quality and applicability of risk prediction models for mortality in patients with multimorbidity in clinical practice and future research remained uncertain.

How accurately do existing risk prediction models predict mortality in patients with multimorbidity?

Population

18 studies with 21 prediction models in patients with multimorbidity

Design

Systematic review and meta-analysis

Authors

YCYuanyuan ChenMJMaria Yeonhee JiLDL. Y. Dong

Discussion

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Overview

Prediction models for multimorbidity mortality have uncertain quality and applicability; leaves open which are suitable for clinical use or further research.

Structured PICO

How accurately do existing risk prediction models predict mortality in patients with multimorbidity?

P
Population
18 studies with 21 prediction models evaluating patients with multimorbidity
I
Intervention
Risk prediction models for mortality
O
Outcome
Mortalityhard clinical

Existing risk prediction models for mortality in multimorbid patients show fair discrimination but suffer from significant methodological biases, highlighting the need for more rigorous model development and external validation.

Limitations

  • Significant risks of bias based on the PROBAST checklist
  • Poor reporting of the analysis domain

Cite This Study

Chen et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a867db4dd35e1ad7bb2e080https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1505541
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