What is MSMpred?

  • Objective: fit and validate a multistate model and make predictions using it easily.
  • Data: the user can upload data or use the example data.

Sections of MSMpred

  • Data: upload new data.
  • Model specification: define the transitions, choose the covariates and decide the follow-up time.
  • Exploring the data: descriptive graphs of the data.
  • Fitted model: choose the type of model and fit the model.
  • Graphics: receive a forest plot of the fitted model.
  • Model validation: validate the model using residuals.
  • Predictions: make predictions about new individuals.

Warning!

For security purposes in some institutions this app does not work. You can use the following link: https://msmpred.shinyapps.io/MSMpred/

If you have problems using it do not heasitate to contact us.
Leire Garmendia Bergés: leire.garmendia@upc.edu
Jordi Cortés Martínez: jordi.cortes-martinez@upc.edu
Guadalupe Gómez Melis: lupe.gomez@upc.edu

DIVINE

The DynamIc eValuation of COVID-19 cliNical statEs and their prognostic factors to improve the intra-hospital patient management (DIVINE) project is funded by Generalitat de Catalunya (2020PANDE00148).
  • Team: clinicians from Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL) and biostatisticians from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC).
  • Data: more than 4,000 hospitalized adult COVID-19 patients from 8 Catalan hospitals during four waves of the pandemic.
  • Objectives:
    1. Identify the most clinically relevant prognostic factors for the events.
    2. Develop a prediction tool to identify high-risk individuals.
    3. Estimate the incubation time period of the SARS-CoV-2.
    4. Assess the patients’ profile over time.

States

  1. No severe pneumonia (nopneum): patients that are hospitalized due to COVID-19 but do not have severe pneumonia.
  2. Severe pneumonia (pneum): patients that are hospitalized due to COVID-19 and have severe pneumonia.
  3. Recovery (reco): patients that had severe pneumonia while hospitalized due to COVID-19, and follow at the hospital but they have recovered.
  4. Non-invasive mechanical ventilation (NIMV): patients that need non-invasive mechanical ventilation while hospitalized due to COVID-19.
  5. Invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV): patients that need invasive mechanical ventilation while hospitalized due to COVID-19.
  6. Discharge (dcharg): patients that go home or to another hospital after recovering from COVID-19.
  7. Death (death): patients that die in the hospital due to COVID-19.

Transitions

Covariates

  • Sex (sex): dicotomic covariate with categories Men and Women representing the sex of the patients.
  • Age (age): numeric covariate that represents the age of the patients.
  • Pneumonia severity index (psi): numeric covariate that represents the severity of the pneumonia.
  • Cardiovascular diseases (card_vasc): a dicotomic covariate with categories No and Yes representing if the patients have any cardiovascular disease or not.
  • blood oxygen saturation/oxigen supply (safi): numeric covariate that represents the respiratory limitations.
  • Charlson index (charlson.fact): index that predicts 10-year mortality.
  • C-reactive protein (crprot): a numeric covariate that represents the value of the C-reactive protein (CRP) of each patient.
  • Lymphocytes (lympho): a numeric covariate that represents the number of lymphocytes of each patient.

File format

  • Uploaded data needs to be a csv file where columns are separated by comas and decimals are represented by points.

States

  • Time and status variables related to the different states of the model need to be called as x_time and x_status respectively, where x corresponds to the name of each state (e.g. death_time and death_status).
  • The initial state(s) need to be included in the file following the previous naming and time equal 0 when the initial state is not a transient state.
  • Data must include one variable named inistat where the name of the initial state of each individual is specified.

Covariates

  • The variables that are not named as x_time, x_status, id or inistat will be considered as covariates.
  • The names of the variables can not contain any number or dot.

Once a dataset is uploaded you need to refresh the page to use the example data.

When the DIVINE cohort is used for confidentiality reasons only the information of 20 patients is shown, although internally all the individuals are used.



Every time you add/delete a transition or covariate the app automatically makes the needed computations.

Orange → Initial state; Blue → Transient state; Magenta → Absorbing state; Green → Isolate state

Define the transitions

In order to include several covariates, transitions need a minimum of individuals for each covariate.

Multistate model diagram

Number of events for each transition

Time specification

Covariates per transition

Box-plots of the length of stay in each state

Cumulative incidence curves of the absorbing states

You can use the search box to find the covariates related with a specific transition.

1) Table of model coefficients:

2) Table of likelihood:

3) Table of goodness of fit:

Select the units to plot for each numerical covariate:

Forest plot of the covariates taken into account in the selected transition

Martingale-based residuals of the selected covariate and transition

dfbetas residuals of the covariates related with the selected transition

Schoenfeld residuals of the covariates related with the selected transition


The predictive performance is not computed automatically as it takes to much time. If wanted this performance can be computed clicking on the button.

Table of logarithmic score:

Confusion matrix:

Table of model comparison:

Save the models:


Save the following session id to use it to upload this information in other session:


Load other models:

Introduce the session id you want to recover:


You can predict the clinical evolution for new individuals, using the model previously fitted. This prediction can be done for one or two individuals at the same time, making possible the comparison of the evolution of individuals with different profiles.

Every time you add/delete a transition or covariate the app automatically makes the needed computations.

GRBIO

The Grup de Recerca en Bioestadística i Bioinformàtica (GRBIO) research group has expertise in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, mainly Survival Analysis, Clinical Trials and Biostatistical Methods for Integrative Analysis of Omics Data. Visit our web to see our activities, publications and statistical tools. Click here!

Funding

This research was funded by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Spain) [PID2019-104830RB-I00/ DOI (AEI): 10.13039/501100011033] and by Generalitat de Catalunya (2020PANDE00148).

Authors

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Leire Garmendia Bergés

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Jordi Cortés Martínez

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Guadalupe Gómez Melis

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Contact info

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