Targeted Search for Individualized Clinical Decision Rules to Optimize Clinical Outcomes.

ABSTRACT: Novel biomarkers, in combination with currently available clinical information, have been sought to enhance clinical decision making in many branches of medicine, including screening, surveillance and prognosis. An individualized clinical decision rule (ICDR) is a decision rule that matches subgroups of patients with tailored medical regimen based on patient characteristics. We proposed new approaches to identify ICDRs by directly optimizing a risk-adjusted clinical benefit function that acknowledges the tradeoff between detecting disease and over-treating patients with benign conditions. In particular, we developed a novel plug-in algorithm to optimize the risk-adjusted clinical benefit function, which leads to the construction of both nonparametric and linear parametric ICDRs. In additio

SUBMITTER: Wang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10270673 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature