A Two-Part Framework for Estimating Individualized Treatment Rules From Semicontinuous Outcomes

2020
Health care payments are an important component of health care utilization and are thus a major focus in health services and health policy applications. However, payment outcomes are semicontinuous in that over a given period of time some patients incur no payments and some patients incur large costs. Individualized treatment rules (ITRs) are a major part of the push for tailoring treatments and interventions to patients, yet there is a little work focused on estimating ITRs from semicontinuous outcomes. In this article, we develop a framework for estimation of ITRs based on two-part modeling, wherein the ITR is estimated by separately targeting the zero part of the outcome and the strictly positive part. To improve performance when high-dimensional covariates are available, we leverage a scientifically plausible penalty that simultaneously selects variables and encourages the signs of coefficients for each variable to agree between the two components of the ITR. We develop an efficient algorithm for computation and prove oracle inequalities for the resulting estimation and prediction errors. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach in simulated examples and in a study of a health system intervention.for this article are available online.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION
页码:210-223|卷号:116|期号:533
ISSN:0162-1459
收录类型
SSCI
发表日期
2020
学科领域
循证社会科学-方法
国家
美国
语种
英语
DOI
10.1080/01621459.2020.1801449
其他关键词
PROPENSITY SCORE; SUBGROUP IDENTIFICATION; MODEL; COST
EISSN
1537-274X
资助机构
University of Wisconsin (UW) Health Innovation Program; UW School of Medicine and Public Health; Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute - PCORI [ME-2018C2-13180]
资助信息
This project was supported by the University of Wisconsin (UW) Health Innovation Program and the UW School of Medicine and Public Health from The Wisconsin Partnership Program. Guanhua Chen was supported by Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Awards (ME-2018C2-13180). The views in this publication are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the PCORI, its Board of Governors or Methodology Committee.
被引频次(WOS)
1
被引更新日期
2022-01
来源机构
University of Minnesota System University of Minnesota Twin Cities University of Wisconsin System University of Wisconsin Madison University of Wisconsin System University of Wisconsin Madison University of Wisconsin System University of Wisconsin Madison
关键词
Cooperative lasso Electronic health records Health services Oracle inequality Precision medicine