TY - JOUR T1 - Use TRIPOD when validating clinical prediction models JF - Emergency Medicine Journal JO - Emerg Med J SP - 81 LP - 81 DO - 10.1136/emermed-2022-212617 VL - 40 IS - 1 AU - Bart GJ Candel AU - Søren Kabell Nissen Y1 - 2023/01/01 UR - http://emj.bmj.com/content/40/1/81.1.abstract N2 - It is with great interest that we have read the article from Schinkel et al in which the Netherlands Triage System (NTS) was compared with the Modified Early Warning Score (MEWS) to predict hospital admission and 30-day mortality in Emergency Department (ED) patients.1 Although the results showed that the MEWS performed better than complaints-based triage in terms of discrimination, we disagree with the conclusion that MEWS may replace the NTS score for triage of patients.The authors could have strengthened the methodology and conclusions by following the ‘transparent reporting of a multivariable prediction model for individual prognosis or diagnosis’ (TRIPOD) guidelines.2 For example, in the study by Schinkel et al, patients were excluded if no … ER -