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Nomograms

"Nomograms" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Graphical representation of a statistical model containing scales for calculating the prognostic weight of a value for each individual variable. Nomograms are instruments that can be used to predict outcomes using specific clinical parameters. They use ALGORITHMS that incorporate several variables to calculate the predicted probability that a patient will achieve a particular clinical endpoint.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Nomograms" by people in this website by year, and whether "Nomograms" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 24 publications over 13 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2020 and 2022
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