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Activity Number: 352 - SPEED: Biometrics and Environmental Statistics Part 2
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 9, 2022 : 2:00 PM to 2:45 PM
Sponsor: Biometrics Section
Abstract #323811
Title: A Multiple Imputation Approach for Optimal Treatment Decision Rules
Author(s): Jenny Shen* and Kristin Linn
Companies: University of Pennsylvania and University of Pennsylvania
Keywords: individualized treatment regime; decision rule; multiply imputed data
Abstract:

Individual patients, care providers, and other stakeholders can benefit from the development and implementation of data-driven optimal treatment strategies. Optimal treatment regimes can improve outcomes and lower healthcare costs through optimal treatment decision rules, which maximize a population-level distributional summary such as the expected value of a clinical outcome. Guidance for estimating optimal decision rules in the presence of missing data is fairly limited, as the majority of existing methods rely on having a complete set of data that are observed. The Social incentives to Encourage Physical Activity and Understand Predictors (STEP UP) trial was a randomized trial comparing multiple interventions that aimed to increase daily step counts among employees at a large professional services company. Using simulations, we propose a multiple imputation framework for estimating optimal decision rules for data with missingness, discuss guidance for reproducible inference, and apply our findings to data from the STEP UP trial.


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