Title
A systematic review of predictive models for asthma development in children.
Abstract
Asthma is the most common pediatric chronic disease affecting 9.6 % of American children. Delay in asthma diagnosis is prevalent, resulting in suboptimal asthma management. To help avoid delay in asthma diagnosis and advance asthma prevention research, researchers have proposed various models to predict asthma development in children. This paper reviews these models.A systematic review was conducted through searching in PubMed, EMBASE, CINAHL, Scopus, the Cochrane Library, the ACM Digital Library, IEEE Xplore, and OpenGrey up to June 3, 2015. The literature on predictive models for asthma development in children was retrieved, with search results limited to human subjects and children (birth to 18 years). Two independent reviewers screened the literature, performed data extraction, and assessed article quality.The literature search returned 13,101 references in total. After manual review, 32 of these references were determined to be relevant and are discussed in the paper. We identify several limitations of existing predictive models for asthma development in children, and provide preliminary thoughts on how to address these limitations.Existing predictive models for asthma development in children have inadequate accuracy. Efforts to improve these models' performance are needed, but are limited by a lack of a gold standard for asthma development in children.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1186/s12911-015-0224-9
BMC Med. Inf. & Decision Making
Keywords
Field
DocType
Asthma development, Bronchiolitis, Predictive model, Machine learning
Bronchiolitis,Asthma,Pediatrics,Knowledge management,Intensive care medicine,Chronic disease,Health informatics,Medicine
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
15
1
1472-6947
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.43
5
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gang Luo174144.73
Flory L Nkoy2153.49
Bryan L Stone392.27
Darell Schmick430.43
Michael D Johnson530.43