Sparse two-stage Bayesian meta-analysis for individualized treatments

Fuente: arXiv
Enregistré dans:
Détails bibliographiques
Auteurs principaux: Shen, Junwei, Moodie, Erica E. M., Golchi, Shirin
Format: Preprint
Publié: 2024
Sujets:
Accès en ligne:
Tags: Ajouter un tag
Pas de tags, Soyez le premier à ajouter un tag!
_version_ 1866910472916172800
author Shen, Junwei
Moodie, Erica E. M.
Golchi, Shirin
author_facet Shen, Junwei
Moodie, Erica E. M.
Golchi, Shirin
contents Individualized treatment rules tailor treatments to patients based on clinical, demographic, and other characteristics. Estimation of individualized treatment rules requires the identification of individuals who benefit most from the particular treatments and thus the detection of variability in treatment effects. To develop an effective individualized treatment rule, data from multisite studies may be required due to the low power provided by smaller datasets for detecting the often small treatment-covariate interactions. However, sharing of individual-level data is sometimes constrained. Furthermore, sparsity may arise in two senses: different data sites may recruit from different populations, making it infeasible to estimate identical models or all parameters of interest at all sites, and the number of non-zero parameters in the model for the treatment rule may be small. To address these issues, we adopt a two-stage Bayesian meta-analysis approach to estimate individualized treatment rules which optimize expected patient outcomes using multisite data without disclosing individual-level data beyond the sites. Simulation results demonstrate that our approach can provide consistent estimates of the parameters which fully characterize the optimal individualized treatment rule. We estimate the optimal Warfarin dose strategy using data from the International Warfarin Pharmacogenetics Consortium, where data sparsity and small treatment-covariate interaction effects pose additional statistical challenges.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2406_03056
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Sparse two-stage Bayesian meta-analysis for individualized treatments
Shen, Junwei
Moodie, Erica E. M.
Golchi, Shirin
Methodology
Applications
Individualized treatment rules tailor treatments to patients based on clinical, demographic, and other characteristics. Estimation of individualized treatment rules requires the identification of individuals who benefit most from the particular treatments and thus the detection of variability in treatment effects. To develop an effective individualized treatment rule, data from multisite studies may be required due to the low power provided by smaller datasets for detecting the often small treatment-covariate interactions. However, sharing of individual-level data is sometimes constrained. Furthermore, sparsity may arise in two senses: different data sites may recruit from different populations, making it infeasible to estimate identical models or all parameters of interest at all sites, and the number of non-zero parameters in the model for the treatment rule may be small. To address these issues, we adopt a two-stage Bayesian meta-analysis approach to estimate individualized treatment rules which optimize expected patient outcomes using multisite data without disclosing individual-level data beyond the sites. Simulation results demonstrate that our approach can provide consistent estimates of the parameters which fully characterize the optimal individualized treatment rule. We estimate the optimal Warfarin dose strategy using data from the International Warfarin Pharmacogenetics Consortium, where data sparsity and small treatment-covariate interaction effects pose additional statistical challenges.
title Sparse two-stage Bayesian meta-analysis for individualized treatments
topic Methodology
Applications
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03056