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SUBMITTER: Chakraborty B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4231831 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chakraborty Bibhas B Murphy Susan A SA
Annual review of statistics and its application 20140101
A dynamic treatment regime consists of a sequence of decision rules, one per stage of intervention, that dictate how to individualize treatments to patients based on evolving treatment and covariate history. These regimes are particularly useful for managing chronic disorders, and fit well into the larger paradigm of <i>personalized medicine</i>. They provide one way to operationalize a <i>clinical decision support system</i>. Statistics plays a key role in the construction of <i>evidence-based< ...[more]