Patient-reported outcomeA patient-reported outcome (PRO) is a health outcome directly reported by the patient who experienced it. It stands in contrast to an outcome reported by someone else, such as a physician-reported outcome, a nurse-reported outcome, and so on. PRO methods, such as questionnaires, are used in clinical trials or other clinical settings, to help better understand a treatment's efficacy or effectiveness. The use of digitized PROs, or electronic patient-reported outcomes (ePROs), is on the rise in today's health research setting.
Médecine prédictiveLa médecine prédictive désigne les capacités nouvelles de la médecine, et notamment de la génétique de prévoir, parfois très longtemps à l'avance, les affections qui frapperont le patient. Cette perspective a beaucoup préoccupé le législateur français à l'occasion de l'examen des lois de bioéthique de 1994, et suscité un certain intérêt de la part des compagnies d'assurance. Cette expression est par le professeur Jacques Ruffié, dans son livre Naissance de la médecine prédictive (éditions Odile Jacob, 1993).
Evaluation of binary classifiersThe evaluation of binary classifiers compares two methods of assigning a binary attribute, one of which is usually a standard method and the other is being investigated. There are many metrics that can be used to measure the performance of a classifier or predictor; different fields have different preferences for specific metrics due to different goals. For example, in medicine sensitivity and specificity are often used, while in computer science precision and recall are preferred.
