Longitudinal healthcare analytics for disease management: Empirical demonstration for low back pain

Abstract: Clinician guidelines recommend health management to tailor the form of care to the expected course of diseases. Hence, in order to decide upon a suitable treatment plan, health professionals benefit from decision support, i.e., predictions about how a disease is to evolve. In clinical practice, such a prediction model requires interpret- ability. Interpretability, however, is often precluded by complex dynamic models that would be capable of capturing the intrapersonal variability of disease trajectories. Therefore, we develop a cross-sectional ARMA model that allows for inference of the expected course of symptoms. Distinct from traditional time series models, it generalizes to cross-sectional settings and thus patient cohorts (i.e., it is estimated to multiple instead of single disease trajectories). Our model is evaluated according to a longitudinal 52-week study involving 928 patients with low back pain. It achieves a favorable prediction performance while maintaining interpretability. In sum, we provide decision support by informing health professionals about whether symptoms will have the tendency to stabilize or continue to be severe

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch
Notes
Decision support systems. - 132 (2020) , 113271, ISSN: 1873-5797

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Freiburg
(who)
Universität
(when)
2020
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DOI
10.1016/j.dss.2020.113271
URN
urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-freidok-1719396
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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