Predictive analytics for step-up therapy: Supervised or semi-supervised learning?
Journal:
Journal of biomedical informatics
Published Date:
Jun 17, 2021
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Step-up therapy is a patient management approach that aims to balance the efficacy, costs and risks posed by different lines of medications. While the initiation of first line medications is a straightforward decision, stepping-up a patient to the next treatment line is often more challenging and difficult to predict. By identifying patients who are likely to move to the next line of therapy, prediction models could be used to help healthcare organizations with resource planning and chronic disease management.