Table 3.

Methodological Quality Assessment of Included Prediction Models following the Prediction Model Risk of Bias Assessment Tool (PROBAST) Guidelines

StudyParticipantsPredictorsOutcomeAnalysisOverall
Frost DW, et al., 2017?
Howell P, & Elkin PL., 2019???
Pearce et al., 2019+++
Hu Z, et al., 2015
Hao et al., 2014+++
Bhavsar et al., 2018?++
Crane et al., 2010+++
Rahimian et al., 2018
Gao et al., 2014?+?+
Perkins et at., 2013+++
Morawski et al., 2020+++
Shadmi et al., 2015?+++
Brisimi et al., 2018++?+
Wallace et al., 2016++++
Chenore et al., 2013++
Donnan et al., 2008++
Watson et al., 2011+
Hippisley-Cox et al., 2013
Nijhawan et al., 2012+++
Zeltzer et al., 2019?++
Wang et al., 2013++
Simon et al., 2018+++
Glanz et al., 2018?+
DelPozo-Banos et al., 2018++
Hippisley-Cox, 2017
Barak-Corren et al., 2017++
Bloom et al., 2019
Jung et al., 2019++
Mathias et al., 2013+?+
Tierney et al., 1997?++
O’Mahony et al., 2014+++
  • Note: ROB, risk of bias.

  • − indicates low ROB; + indicates high ROB; and ? indicates unclear ROB.