Adjustable coefficients to customize predictive instruments

摘要

An apparatus for monitoring the medical condition of a patient, the apparatus including a medical instrument which during use monitors one or more clinical features of the patient; a predictive instrument arranged to receive output from the medical instrument and programmed to compute a probability of a medical outcome or diagnosis based on the monitored one or more clinical features, said predictive instrument further programmed to use a model to compute said probability, said model being characterized by a set of weights the values of which affect the computed probability; and an interface through which a user enters an input characterizing at least one of a physical setting in which the predictive instrument is to be used and a sub-population of patients on which the predictive instrument is to be used, wherein said characterizing input causes a corresponding one of a plurality of data sets to be used in said model to establish a value for one or more of said weights in said set of weights.