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Record W4416142124 · doi:10.1186/s41512-025-00208-5

Performance of clinical prediction models for chronic kidney disease among people with diabetes: external validation using the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network (CPCSSN)

2025· article· en· W4416142124 on OpenAlex
Jason Black, David J.T. Campbell, Paul E. Ronksley, Kerry McBrien, Tyler Williamson

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueDiagnostic and Prognostic Research · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicChronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Calgary
FundersAlberta InnovatesAlberta Innovates - Health Solutions
KeywordsKidney diseasePrimary carePredictive modellingRisk assessmentDiseaseMEDLINE

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: Several clinical prediction models that predict the risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in people with diabetes have been developed; however, these models lack external validation demonstrating accurate predictions in Canadian primary care. We externally validated existing clinical prediction models for CKD in Canadian primary care data, overall and across subgroups defined by sex/gender, age, comorbidities, and neighbourhood-level deprivation. METHODS: separated by ≥ 90 days and ≤ 1 year. For each model, we estimated the discrimination, precision, recall, and calibration within CPCSSN. RESULTS: Among 37,604 patients with diabetes, 14.6% met diagnostic criteria for CKD within 5 years. Overall performance of the 13 included CKD prediction models in CPCCSN was mixed: three models displayed moderate to strong discrimination (areas under the receiver-operating characteristic curves [AUROCs] > 0.70), whereas other AUROCs were as Low as 0.508. After model updating, calibrations were heterogeneous with most models displaying some miscalibration. Some subgroups displayed considerable differences in performance: discriminative performance (AUROC) declined with increasing age and number of comorbidities, whereas the precision and recall improved with increasing age and number of comorbidities. We observed no difference in performance according to sex/gender or deprivation quintile. CONCLUSIONS: Three models displayed moderate to strong performance predicting CKD among CPCSSN patients. Next, these models should be evaluated for their impact on practitioner and patient outcomes when implemented in clinical practice. If successful, these models hold promise in achieving widespread adoption to help identify those at highest risk of CKD and guide therapies that may prevent or delay CKD and related sequelae (e.g., end-stage renal disease) among people with diabetes.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.203
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.043
GPT teacher head0.345
Teacher spread0.301 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it