Estimating a cost-effective individualized treatment rule (CE-ITR) based on machine learning

Author(s)Zhang, Qing
Date Accessioned2022-03-17T12:25:06Z
Date Available2022-03-17T12:25:06Z
Publication Date2021
SWORD Update2022-01-19T20:08:17Z
AbstractPolicy makers employ Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (CEA) to evaluate a new treatment based on its cost and effectiveness. ITR is the treatment recommendation based on patient’s characteristics. However, the recommends generated from ITR and CEA could mismatch, even opposite since their aim is different. Therefore, policy makers need a tool to trade-off between ITR and CEA. Traditionally, optimal ITR focus on the mean benefit on population level, not on individual level. In the era of precision medicine, an ideal intervention needs to be optimized based on individual level. ☐ Here a composite outcome, Net Monetary Benefit (NMB) which integrates the clinical benefits and corresponding cost, is adopted to address the optimization of the cost-effective ITR. ITR is taken as a function of patients’ characteristics that, when implemented, optimizes the allocation of limited healthcare resources by optimizing clinical benefits while minimizing treatment-related costs. Applying machine learning approach –conditional random forest and others(such as XGBoost) we can consider ITR and CEA jointly on individual level to estimate a Cost-Effective ITR(CE-ITR) and apply it to real world clinical data.en_US
AdvisorZhang, Zugui
DegreeM.S.
DepartmentUniversity of Delaware, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.58088/r967-fh10
Unique Identifier1303902189
URLhttps://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/30668
Languageen
PublisherUniversity of Delawareen_US
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KeywordsConditional random forest
KeywordsCost effectiveness analysis
KeywordsIndividualized treatment rule
KeywordsMachine learning
KeywordsNet monetary benefit
TitleEstimating a cost-effective individualized treatment rule (CE-ITR) based on machine learningen_US
TypeThesisen_US
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