Methodology

How the underlying systematic review was conducted and how this living database is curated.

Review type

PRISMA-concordant systematic review of clinical prediction models in vestibular schwannoma management.

Databases searched

Ovid MEDLINE
Embase
Web of Science
Scopus
IEEE Xplore

Search date: 11 May 2026.

Population

Adult patients with vestibular schwannoma. Studies exclusively about NF2 cohorts were excluded.

Inclusion criteria

Primary research studies
Develop, validate, or apply statistical or machine-learning prediction models
Estimate individual future clinical, radiological or functional outcomes
Sample size ≥ 50 patients
Full-text articles in English

Exclusion criteria

Reviews, conference abstracts, editorials, commentaries
Non-English studies, animal studies, unavailable full text
Studies exclusively about SRS planning regimens
NF2-only studies; economic analyses
Studies that only report associations without a usable predictive model

Risk of bias

PROBAST (Prediction model Risk Of Bias ASsessment Tool) — domains: participants, predictors, outcome, analysis.

Data extraction

CHARMS framework. Each model row in this database maps directly to its CHARMS extraction fields.

Curation policy

The database is curated. Quarterly automated literature surveillance generates a queue of candidate publications. AI-assisted extraction proposes structured values, but no entry is published until a human reviewer approves it. Every change is logged in the audit trail.