Identifying best practice treatment strategies by incorporating information from similar healthcare pathways (A02)

• Subject Area: Epidemiology and Medical Biometry/Statistics ; Mathematics
• Term: since 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 499552394

Using the healthcare pathways of a particular small group of patients as a starting point, we will develop approaches to quantify the similarity of the pathways of other patients to this group based on multistate models. We will quantify uncertainty and construct confidence intervals for these measures, and use them to formulate hypotheses and corresponding tests that allow to decide on the similarity of two healthcare pathways. Furthermore, new clustering methods for several multistate models will be developed, for identification of patient groups that represent best practice healthcare pathways.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1597: Small Data
• Applicant Institution: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
• Project Heads: Dr. Nadine Binder; Professor Dr. Holger Dette