Cardiovascular diseases

Talk: Prediction of Long-Term Medication Adherence and Its Potential Benefits for Intervention.

Long-term adherence to medication helps prevent chronic diseases. When patients adhere poorly, physicians intervene to increase this adherence. Therefore, knowing which patients will stop adhering would help distribute the available resources …

Monitoring policy in the context of preventive treatment of cardiovascular disease (2022)

Preventing chronic diseases is an essential aspect of medical care. To prevent chronic diseases, physicians focus on monitoring their risk factors and prescribing the necessary medication. The optimal monitoring policy depends on the patient's risk …

Seminar: Dynamic Medical Decision-Making to Define Monitoring Policies for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention.

Preventing chronic diseases is an essential aspect of medical care. To prevent chronic diseases, physicians focus on monitoring their risk factors and prescribing the necessary medication. The optimal monitoring policy depends on the patient's risk …

Seminar: Dynamic Medical Decision-Making to Define Monitoring Policies for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention.

Physicians seek to prevent chronic diseases by tracking and nudging patients' healthcare behavior despite the limited time, resources, and diverse needs of a heterogeneous panel of patients. Therefore, there is a need to schedule patients optimally. …

Using Longitudinal Health Records to Simulate the Impact of National Treatment Guidelines for Cardiovascular Disease

Continuous tracking of patient’s health data through electronic health records (EHRs) has created an opportunity to predict healthcare policies’ long-term impacts. Despite the advances in EHRs, data may be missing or sparsely collected. In this …

Talk: Patient Prioritization Model With Limited Resources And Stochastic Compliance.

Physicians seek to prevent chronic diseases by tracking the patients’ healthcare behavior. They handle a large heterogeneous panel of patients, which is costly or demands multiple resources. Unfortunately, physicians do not count on infinite …

Talk: Using Longitudinal Health Records to Simulate the Impact of National Treatment Guidelines for Cardiovascular Disease.

Continuous tracking of patient’s health data through electronic health records (EHRs) has created an opportunity to predict the impact of healthcare policies. Despite the advances in EHRs, data can be missing or sparsely collected. We developed a …

Talk: Dynamic Updating For Prediction Models For Medication Adherence.

Adherence to medication is a significant factor when preventing chronic diseases. When patients adhere poorly, physicians intervene to increase this adherence. Methods such as constant surveillance and reminding the importance of medications have …

Poster: Effects of follow-up policies on statin adherence.

Adherence to medication is a significant factor when dealing with the prevention of cardiovascular diseases. Medications can reduce the risk of stroke or heart attack, but they only work to the extent that patients adhere to the medications. The …

Talk: Cholesterol Follow-up Policy in the Context of Preventive Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease.

Preventing chronic diseases is an essential aspect of medical care for healthy patients, but deciding when to collect information, such as the patient’s cholesterol levels, is difficult. Measuring too frequently may be unnecessary and costly; on the …