Welcome to a new world of Archimedes mini-pods; for those days when you don’t have an Archimedes to listen to or explore, you can pick up the latest issue and train your critically appraising eye on another article.

This month we look at one of the best descriptions of the development (and limitations) of a multivariable prediction model we’ve seen in some time [DOI 10.1136/archdischild-2022-325158 - https://adc.bmj.com/content/108/8/608]. Prediction - and what to do about it - has been a longstanding fave of Archi and gets all the gold stars. [DOI 10.1136/archdischild-2021-322314 - https://adc.bmj.com/content/106/6/609.2]

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