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    Area of Science:

    • Health Informatics
    • Data Science
    • Epidemiology

    Background:

    • Scientific disciplines increasingly use machine learning for causal inference.
    • Electronic health records (EHRs) offer valuable data for longitudinal causal estimation.
    • Diabetes management requires understanding the impact of dynamic treatment regimes.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To apply machine learning algorithms for longitudinal causal estimation of diabetes care provisions.
    • To formulate a marginal structural model for dynamic treatment regimes involving metformin, sulfonylurea, and SGLT-2i.
    • To assess the causal relationship between diabetes medications and quality of care using EHRs.

    Main Methods:

    • Utilized a SuperLearner framework with multiple base learners (LASSO, ridge, elastic net, random forest, GBM, neural network).
    • Generated a pseudo-population by marginalizing time-dependent confounding processes.
    • Assessed covariate balance using longitudinal stabilized weights.

    Main Results:

    • Treatment "drop-in" cohorts (metformin, sulfonylurea, SGLT-2i) showed improved diabetes care provisions.
    • Results were compared against a treatment-naïve cohort.
    • Machine learning algorithms identified causal relationships between medications and care quality.

    Conclusions:

    • Machine learning, particularly the SuperLearner framework, is effective for longitudinal causal inference in healthcare.
    • Initiating common diabetes medications may enhance diabetes care quality.
    • Findings can inform strategies for preventing adverse chronic outcomes in type II diabetes.