A guide to the QAMC obstetric risk prediction web page
D. R. Lovell, M. Niranjan, R. W. Prager, K. J. Dalton and R. Derom
The Quality Assurance in Maternity Care (QAMC) project has produced a
Web page to demonstrate the potential benefits in combining three
elements: interactive access to information via the World Wide Web;
statistical risk models and data mining techniques; large databases of
medical information.
This document describes the context in which this web page was
developed, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of this approach to
medical risk prediction.
Keywords: Feature selection, area under receiver
operating characteristic (ROC) curve, medical risk prediction, obstetrics.