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- Title
Identification of predicted individual treatment effects in randomized clinical trials.
- Authors
Lamont, Andrea; Lyons, Michael D.; Jaki, Thomas; Stuart, Elizabeth; Feaster, Daniel J.; Tharmaratnam, Kukatharmini; Oberski, Daniel; Ishwaran, Hemant; Wilson, Dawn K.; Van Horn, M. Lee
- Abstract
In most medical research, treatment effectiveness is assessed using the average treatment effect or some version of subgroup analysis. The practice of individualized or precision medicine, however, requires new approaches that predict how an individual will respond to treatment, rather than relying on aggregate measures of effect. In this study, we present a conceptual framework for estimating individual treatment effects, referred to as predicted individual treatment effects. We first apply the predicted individual treatment effect approach to a randomized controlled trial designed to improve behavioral and physical symptoms. Despite trivial average effects of the intervention, we show substantial heterogeneity in predicted individual treatment response using the predicted individual treatment effect approach. The predicted individual treatment effects can be used to predict individuals for whom the intervention may be most effective (or harmful). Next, we conduct a Monte Carlo simulation study to evaluate the accuracy of predicted individual treatment effects. We compare the performance of two methods used to obtain predictions: multiple imputation and non-parametric random decision trees. Results showed that, on average, both predictive methods produced accurate estimates at the individual level; however, the random decision trees tended to underestimate the predicted individual treatment effect for people at the extreme and showed more variability in predictions across repetitions compared to the imputation approach. Limitations and future directions are discussed.
- Subjects
INDIVIDUALIZED medicine; TREATMENT effectiveness; CLINICAL trials; MEDICAL research; DATA; COMPARATIVE studies; DECISION trees; FORECASTING; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL cooperation; RESEARCH; SYSTEM analysis; EVALUATION research; RANDOMIZED controlled trials
- Publication
Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 2018, Vol 27, Issue 2, p142
- ISSN
0962-2802
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1177/0962280215623981