Uncovering Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Pragmatic Gerontology Trials
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揭示实用性老年医学试验中的处理效应异质性
- 研究问题
- 当生活质量结局因死亡而不可观测时，如何识别无论是否接受处理都会存活者的效应，并分析其基线特征异质性？
- 方法与思路
- 作者以主分层定义存活者平均因果效应，使用 BART 灵活建模潜在分层和层内潜在结果，估计条件存活者效应。
- 材料陈述的贡献
- 摘要称，在远程照护的整群随机试验中，平均零效应掩盖了部分亚组的不同生活质量收益，方法同时处理死亡截断与聚类。
- 阅读关注点
- 核对主分层效应的识别假设、潜在层划分和先验设定，以及聚类处理、亚组不确定性和结论的敏感性分析。
- 阅读边界
- 这是 arXiv 预印本，同行评审及期刊接收未核验；摘要未说明识别假设或亚组效应数值，观察到存活者不等于始终存活者。
原文摘要
Detecting heterogeneity in treatment response enriches the interpretation of gerontologic trials. In aging research, estimating the effect of the intervention on clinically meaningful outcomes faces analytical challenges when it is truncated by death. For example, in the Whole Systems Demonstrator trial, a large cluster-randomized study evaluating telecare among older adults, the overall effect of the intervention on quality of life was found to be null. However, this marginal intervention estimate obscures potential heterogeneity of individuals responding to the intervention, particularly among those who survive to the end of follow-up. To explore this heterogeneity, we adopt a causal framework grounded in principal stratification, targeting the Survivor Average Causal Effect (SACE)-the treatment effect among "always-survivors," or those who would survive regardless of treatment assignment. We extend this framework using Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART), a nonparametric machine learning method, to flexibly model both latent principal strata and stratum-specific potential outcomes. This enables the estimation of the Conditional SACE (CSACE), allowing us to uncover variation in treatment effects across subgroups defined by baseline characteristics. Our analysis reveals that despite the null average effect, some subgroups experience distinct quality of life benefits (or lack thereof) from telecare, highlighting opportunities for more personalized intervention strategies. This study demonstrates how embedding machine learning methods, such as BART, within a principled causal inference framework can offer deeper insights into trial data with complex features including truncation by death and clustering-key considerations in analyzing pragmatic gerontology trials.