Fused comparative intervention scoring for heterogeneity of longitudinal intervention effects

With the growing cost of health care in the United States, the need to improve efficiency and efficacy has become increasingly urgent. There has been a keen interest in developing interventions to effectively coordinate the typically fragmented care of patients with many comorbidities. Evaluation of such interventions is often challenging given their long-term nature and their differential effectiveness among different patients. Furthermore, care coordination interventions are often highly resource-intensive. Hence there is pressing need to identify which patients would benefit the most from a care coordination program. In this work, Dr. Jared Huling and HIP Investigators Dr. Menggang Yu and Dr. Maureen Smith introduced a subgroup identification procedure for long-term interventions whose effects are expected to change smoothly over time.