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  • Infectious Diseases
  • Medical Diagnostics

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  • Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) lacks accurate and rapid diagnostic tests, causing significant diagnostic delays.
  • Timely diagnosis is crucial for effective TBM treatment and improved patient outcomes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop an improved predictive tool for TBM diagnosis by leveraging individual-level participant data (IPD) from multiple studies.
  • To enhance diagnostic model performance across diverse populations, settings, and subgroups.

Main Methods:

  • Conducted a systematic review to identify eligible studies with IPD.
  • Employed stepwise logistic regression, classification and regression tree (CART), and random forest regression for model development.
  • Utilized internal-external cross-validation to evaluate model performance using C-statistics.

Main Results:

  • Included 3,761 participants from 14 studies across nine countries; 33% had definite or probable TBM.
  • Key predictors identified: CSF glucose, blood glucose, CSF white cell count, CSF differential, cryptococcal antigen, HIV status, and fever.
  • External validation showed logistic regression and random forest achieved a C-statistic of 0.91, outperforming CART (C = 0.82).

Conclusions:

  • Developed a mobile application (https://tbmcalc.github.io/tbmcalc) for TBM clinical prediction, accounting for data heterogeneity.
  • The tool demonstrates improved diagnostic performance, though further external validation is recommended.