Improving providers' survival estimates and selection of prognosis- and guidelines-appropriate treatment for patients with symptomatic bone metastases: Development of the Bone Metastases Ensemble Trees for Survival Decision Support Platform.

Sara R Alcorn Christen R Elledge Anna W LaVigne Lawrence R Kleinberg Thomas J Smith Adam S Levin Jacob Fiksel Scott L Zeger Todd McNuttTheodore L DeWeeseJean L Wright

Published in: Journal of evaluation in clinical practice (2022)

We describe the successful development of a provider-facing decision support platform to aid in the provision of palliative RT in better alignment with patient and disease features. Impact of the BMETS-DSP on decision outcomes will be further assessed in a randomised, controlled study.

Keyphrases

palliative care
clinical trial
high throughput
free survival
open label
metabolic syndrome
study protocol
type diabetes
machine learning
convolutional neural network
deep learning
smoking cessation