There is growing interest in using large-scale observational data collected through national disease registries to develop clinical prediction models (CPMs) that use the experiences of past patients to make predictions about risks of outcome in future patients. CPMs are often developed in isolation across different populations, with repetitive de novo development a common modelling strategy. However, this fails to utilise all available information and does not respond to changes in health processes through time/space. Using the UK transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) registry as motivation, this thesis aimed to develop methods that improve the development of CPMs within local populations. Three research questions (RQs) were considered: (1) what are the challenges of mortality risk prediction in TAVI due to changes in procedure knowledge and the patient population? (2) Can we use a combination of baseline patient characteristics to predict the risk of mortality post TAVI? (3) How can we exploit multi-dimensional information about patients to inform clinical decision-making at a local-level? Chapter 2 demonstrates potential to simplify the procedure by removing pre-dilation of the aortic valve, thereby altering the underlying treatment pathway, and Chapter 3 shows that mortality rates from registries should be reported in the context of the underlying patient population. Despite Chapter 2 and 3 presenting potential challenges to TAVI risk prediction (RQ 1), CPMs are fundamental to support benchmarking/audit analyses. To this end, Chapter 4 found that the performance of existing TAVI CPMs was inadequate for use in UK patients. Through the discovery of new risk factors (e.g. frailty) in Chapter 5, the thesis derived a UK-TAVI CPM for audit analyses within the UK cohort (Chapter 6). While Chapters 4-6 present the classic framework of CPM development (RQ 2), this cannot overcome the challenges of mortality prediction in the TAVI setting (RQ 1) and is not suited to support local healthcare decision-making (RQ 3). Thus, Chapter 7 found that local model development could be supported through aggregating existing models rather than re-development. Existing methods of model aggregation were extended in Chapter 8 to allow prior research and new data to be utilised within the modelling strategy; application of the herein derived method to the UK TAVI registry indicated that it could facilitate the choice between model aggregation and de novo CPM derivation. Generally, this thesis has the potential to improve the implementation of CPMs within local populations by moving away from the iterative process of re-development. Practically, the thesis derived a UK-TAVI CPM for audit analyses, using classic and novel methodology.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:728035 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | Martin, Glen |
| Contributors | Sperrin, Matthew |
| Publisher | University of Manchester |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Source | https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/methodological-development-to-support-clinical-prediction-modelling-within-local-populations-applications-in-transcatheter-aortic-valve-implantation-and-an-analysis-of-the-british-cardiovascular-interventional-society-national-registry(22691de9-ebb8-4d2a-a942-b3e46dbe9577).html |
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