From Risk Prediction Models to Risk Assessment Service: A Formulation of Development Paradigm

TL;DR

This paper proposes a comprehensive six-stage development paradigm for creating risk assessment services, emphasizing integration of risk prediction models into clinical and resource management applications.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed, structured roadmap for developing risk assessment services, filling a gap in existing methodologies for integrating models into practical applications.

Findings

Formulated a six-stage development paradigm for risk assessment services.

Provided checkpoints for each stage to guide implementation and refinement.

Reviewed existing literature to support the proposed framework.

Abstract

Risk assessment services fulfil the task of generating a risk report from personal information and are developed for purposes like disease prognosis, resource utilization prioritization, and informing clinical interventions. A major component of a risk assessment service is a risk prediction model. For a model to be easily integrated into risk assessment services, efforts are needed to design a detailed development roadmap for the intended service at the time of model development. However, methodology for such design is less described. We thus reviewed existing literature and formulated a six-stage risk assessment service development paradigm, from requirements analysis, service development, model validation, pilot study, to iterative service deployment and assessment and refinement. The study aims at providing a prototypic development roadmap with checkpoints for the design of risk assessment services.