A data-driven approach to optimized medication dosing: a focus on heparin

Purpose To demonstrate a novel method that utilizes retrospective data to develop statistically optimal dosing strategies for medications with sensitive therapeutic windows. We illustrate our approach on intravenous unfractionated heparin, a medication which typically considers only patient weight a...

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Main Authors: Danziger, John (Author), Richter, Stefan E. (Author), Eche, Ifeoma M. (Author), Chen, Tszyi W. (Author), Ghassemi, Mohammad Mahdi (Contributor), Celi, Leo Anthony G. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Medical Engineering & Science (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2016-07-29T20:43:22Z.
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