Table 1.

Study characteristics of prognostic model studies using flexible parametric survival models

Author (year)	Country	Topic area of research	Data source	Study setting	Sample size	Maximum follow-up time	Timescale	Event/outcome	Number of events
Andersson et al. (2014) [34]	Sweden	Cancer	Administrative data	Country	5850	15 years	Calendar time	Mortality	1951
Baade et al. (2015) [33]	Australia	Cancer	Administrative data	Country	870,878	21 years	Calendar time	Mortality	261,720
Baade et al. (2015) [41]	Australia	Cancer	Administrative data	Secondary care	28,654	16 years	Calendar time	Mortality	5469
Castillo et al. (2013) [38]	United States of America	Cancer	Administrative data	Primary care	2284	12 years	Calendar time	Mortality	1210
Csordas et al. (2016) [37]	Switzerland	Cardiovascular	Clinical data	Hospital	185	222 days	Calendar time	Mortality	17
Eyre et al. (2012) [40]	United Kingdom	Infectious disease	Administrative data	Hospital	1678	4.6 years	Calendar time	Clostridium difficile infection recurrence	363
Fox et al. (2014) [32]	United Kingdom	Cancer	Clinical data	Hospital	2918	Not stated	Calendar time	Mortality	Not stated
Li et al. (2016) [39]	United Kingdom	Organ transplant	Administrative data	Secondary care	12,307	10 years	Calendar time	Mortality	1503
Miladinovic et al. (2012) [30]	United States of America	Aging	Medical records	Hospice	590	371 days	Calendar time	Mortality	590
Myklebust et al.(2016) [31]	Norway	Cancer	Administrative data	Country	805,365	15 years	Calendar time	Mortality	Not stated
Ramezani Tehrani et al. (2016) [35]	Iran	Reproductive/perinatal	Population survey	Community	1015	12.3 years	Age	Menopause	277
Sanchis et al. (2014) [36]	Spain	Cardiovascular	Clinical data	Hospital	342	34 months	Calendar time	Mortality	74