Evaluation of the Clinical Utility of the Bone Metastases Ensemble Trees for Survival Decision Support Platform (BMETS-DSP): A Case-Based Pilot Assessment.
Sara R AlcornAnna W LaVigneChristen R ElledgeJacob FikselChen HuLawrence R KleinbergAdam S LevinThomas J SmithZhi ChengKibem KimAvani D RaoLindsey SloanBrandi R PageSusan F StinsonK Ranh VoongTodd R McNuttMichael R BowersTheodore L DeWeeseScott L ZegerJean L WrightPublished in: JCO clinical cancer informatics (2022)
This pilot study demonstrates that BMETS-DSP significantly improved physician survival estimation accuracy, prognostic confidence, likelihood of sharing prognosis, and use of prognosis-appropriate RT regimens in the care of symptomatic bone metastases, supporting future multi-institutional validation of the platform.