Constructing optimal treatment length strategies to maximize quality-adjusted lifetimes
Real-world clinical decision making is a complex process that involves balancing the risks and benefits of treatments. Quality-adjusted lifetime is a composite outcome that combines patient quantity and quality of life, making it an attractive outcome in clinical research. We propose methods for constructing optimal treatment length strategies to maximize this outcome. Existing methods for estimating optimal treatment strategies for survival outcomes cannot be applied to a quality-adjusted lifetime due to induced informative censoring. We propose a weighted estimating equation that adjusts for both confounding and informative censoring. We also propose a nonparametric estimator of the mean counterfactual quality-adjusted lifetime survival curve under a given treatment length strategy, where the weights are estimated using an undersmoothed sieve-based estimator. We show that the estimator is asymptotically linear and provide a data-dependent undersmoothing criterion. We apply our method to obtain the optimal time for percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy insertion in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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