Making Patient-Specific Treatment Decisions Using Prognostic Variables and Utilities of Clinical Outcomes

Making Patient-Specific Treatment Decisions Using Prognostic Variables and Utilities of Clinical Outcomes

We argue that well-informed patient-specific decision-making may be carried out as three consecutive tasks: (1) estimating key parameters of a statistical model, (2) using prognostic information to convert these parameters into clinically interpretable values, and (3) specifying joint utility functi...

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Main Authors: Pavlos Msaouel, Juhee Lee, Peter F. Thall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-06-01
Series:Cancers
Subjects:
individualized inferences
patient-specific decision-making
precision medicine
prognostic biomarkers
utilities
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6694/13/11/2741

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