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Chapter 3
Future perspective
The prediction models that have been developed for women with postmenopausal bleeding showed good performance but have only reached the phase of internal validation. Future research should focus on external validation and impact analysis of these prediction models.We hope that these will confirm their prognostic abilities, so that in the next few years, prediction models can be implemented in general gynaecological practice. Based on this review, we conclude that clinical prediction models show promising results, but further external validation is required as well as impact analysis to maximise diagnostic accuracy of the models at an acceptable patient burden and for acceptable health care costs.
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