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The combination of sequential SOFA derivatives with APACHE II/III and SAPS II models clearly improved prognostic performance of either model alone.

The combination of negative predictors, consisting of no CNV development within 36 hours or the occurrence of BS or SE, in which poor neurological outcome was predicted if at least 1 of these 3 criteria were met, improved prognostic performance.

We showed how such computational integration can improve prognostic performance.

Although the identification of putative biomarkers based on their individual expression patterns will continue to represent a fundamental research tool, there is a need to explore methodologies not only for improving prognostic performance, but also for augmenting our understanding of processes defining the emergence and progression of HF after MI.

Using NT-proBNP values obtained during or after MTH did not improve prognostic performance (data not shown).

Mean-centering of the datasets significantly increased the correlation between the supervised principal components and clinical follow up, therefore improving prognostic performance.

Using weighted mean-centering to account for the differences in the composition of ER+ tumours in five out of the six datasets (individual ER status by immunohistochemistry for tumours in the Pawitan et al. dataset was not available) did not significantly improve prognostic performance over mean-centering alone (Additional File 9).

Thus, we sought to determine if we could improve prognostic performance by integrating information from all signatures into a single model; we determined that the combined model was better at predicting outcome than individual signatures in node-negative disease but failed in node-positive disease.

The inclusion of RDW improved the prognostic performance of the PSI and CURB-65 [ 24].

The addition of the IL-6 and hFABP levels improved the prognostic performance of the clinical predictors for stroke outcome.

Combination of H-FABP and CURB-65 (AUC = 0.824) or H-FABP and PSI (AUC = 0.820) improved their prognostic performance.