Eualuation of Nonlinear Optimization for Scheduling of follow-up cystoscopies to Detect Recurrent Bladder Cancer

Daniel L. Kent, Robert A. Nease, Harold C. Sox, Linda D. Shortliffe and Ross Shachter

Medical Decision Making, 1991, vol. 11, issue 4, 240-248

Abstract: Standard recommendations for patients who have had superficial bladder cancer are in spection by cystoscopy quarterly for a year or two after tumor removal, then half-yearly and yearly. The authors assessed the potential for improvement in scheduling cystoscopies according to probabilistic optimization techniques. Eight hypothetical practices were created, based on retrospective analysis of 918 bladder-cancer-patient charts. Standard and alter native recommendations for the interval to next cystoscopy were compared. The alternatives were derived from patient-specific predictions of future tumor risks (based on the patient's prior recurrence rate and tumor stage and grade) and a nonlinear optimization approach to allocation of the same number of cystoscopies as were available for standard follow-up. The optimization proposed longer intervals between visits for low-risk patients and shorter inter vals for high-risk patients. Overall, optimization reduced expected tumor detection delays by 30%, from 12.6 to 8.7 weeks. When optimization intervals were shorter than standard, cancer was found more often at subsequent cystoscopies (34% vs 27%, p

Date: 1991
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