A Deployed Online Reinforcement Learning Algorithm In An Oral Health Clinical Trial
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| author | Trella, Anna L. Zhang, Kelly W. Jajal, Hinal Nahum-Shani, Inbal Shetty, Vivek Doshi-Velez, Finale Murphy, Susan A. |
| author_facet | Trella, Anna L. Zhang, Kelly W. Jajal, Hinal Nahum-Shani, Inbal Shetty, Vivek Doshi-Velez, Finale Murphy, Susan A. |
| contents | Dental disease is a prevalent chronic condition associated with substantial financial burden, personal suffering, and increased risk of systemic diseases. Despite widespread recommendations for twice-daily tooth brushing, adherence to recommended oral self-care behaviors remains sub-optimal due to factors such as forgetfulness and disengagement. To address this, we developed Oralytics, a mHealth intervention system designed to complement clinician-delivered preventative care for marginalized individuals at risk for dental disease. Oralytics incorporates an online reinforcement learning algorithm to determine optimal times to deliver intervention prompts that encourage oral self-care behaviors. We have deployed Oralytics in a registered clinical trial. The deployment required careful design to manage challenges specific to the clinical trials setting in the U.S. In this paper, we (1) highlight key design decisions of the RL algorithm that address these challenges and (2) conduct a re-sampling analysis to evaluate algorithm design decisions. A second phase (randomized control trial) of Oralytics is planned to start in spring 2025. |
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| spellingShingle | A Deployed Online Reinforcement Learning Algorithm In An Oral Health Clinical Trial Trella, Anna L. Zhang, Kelly W. Jajal, Hinal Nahum-Shani, Inbal Shetty, Vivek Doshi-Velez, Finale Murphy, Susan A. Artificial Intelligence Human-Computer Interaction Dental disease is a prevalent chronic condition associated with substantial financial burden, personal suffering, and increased risk of systemic diseases. Despite widespread recommendations for twice-daily tooth brushing, adherence to recommended oral self-care behaviors remains sub-optimal due to factors such as forgetfulness and disengagement. To address this, we developed Oralytics, a mHealth intervention system designed to complement clinician-delivered preventative care for marginalized individuals at risk for dental disease. Oralytics incorporates an online reinforcement learning algorithm to determine optimal times to deliver intervention prompts that encourage oral self-care behaviors. We have deployed Oralytics in a registered clinical trial. The deployment required careful design to manage challenges specific to the clinical trials setting in the U.S. In this paper, we (1) highlight key design decisions of the RL algorithm that address these challenges and (2) conduct a re-sampling analysis to evaluate algorithm design decisions. A second phase (randomized control trial) of Oralytics is planned to start in spring 2025. |
| title | A Deployed Online Reinforcement Learning Algorithm In An Oral Health Clinical Trial |
| topic | Artificial Intelligence Human-Computer Interaction |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.02069 |