PREDICTION OF AN OPTIMAL MEDICAL TREATMENT

摘要

A method of determining an optimal treatment includes determining a frequency for each health care provider indicating how frequently each treats a selected disease, determining for each health care provider, their average patient outcome APO for treating the selected disease, determining a score for each health care provider based on the corresponding frequency and APO, determining which of the health care providers are experts from the scores that exceed a predefined threshold, and selecting a treatment proscribed by at least one of the identified experts as the optimal treatment.

主权项

1. A computer program product for determining an optimal treatment, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code executable by a processor, to perform method steps comprising:
determining a frequency for each health care provider indicating how frequently each treats a selected disease; determining for each health care provider, their average patient outcome APO for treating the selected disease; determining a score for each health care provider based on the corresponding frequency and APO; determining which of the health care providers are expert from the scores that exceed a predefined threshold; and selecting a treatment proscribed by at least one of the identified experts as the optimal treatment.