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Vickers, Andrew J.; Holland, Ford
The spine journal, 10/2021, Volume: 21, Issue: 10Journal Article
There is increased interest in the use of prediction models to guide clinical decision-making in orthopedics. Prediction models are typically evaluated in terms of their accuracy: discrimination (area-under-the-curve AUC or concordance index) and calibration (a plot of predicted vs. observed risk). But it can be hard to know how high an AUC has to be in order to be “high enough” to warrant use of a prediction model, or how much miscalibration would be disqualifying. Decision curve analysis was developed as a method to determine whether use of a prediction model in the clinic to inform decision-making would do more good than harm. Here we give a brief introduction to decision curve analysis, explaining the critical concepts of net benefit and threshold probability. We briefly review some prediction models reported in the orthopedic literature, demonstrating how use of decision curves has allowed conclusions as to the clinical value of a prediction model. Conversely, papers without decision curves were unable to address questions of clinical value. We recommend increased use of decision curve analysis to evaluate prediction models in the orthopedics literature.
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