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    • Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology
    • Computational Methods in Medicine

    Background:

    • Clinical medicine frequently involves managing continuous exposures, like pharmaceutical titration or laboratory value control.
    • Current clinical trial methods often dichotomize continuous exposures, limiting realistic treatment scenario evaluation.
    • Existing computational methods for continuous exposure effects rely on stringent assumptions, potentially impacting their real-world applicability.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To introduce novel computational methods for estimating the effects of continuous exposure that are more robust to assumption violations.
    • To develop methods that account for gradual changes in exposure common in clinical practice, ensuring local robustness.

    Main Methods:

    • Development of new statistical methods focusing on local robustness for continuous exposure effect estimation.
    • Comparison of proposed methods against existing techniques using three simulated studies of increasing complexity.
    • Application of the methods to a real-world dataset of 14,000 sepsis patients to assess antibiotic administration latency's effect on hospital stay duration.

    Main Results:

    • The proposed methods demonstrated good performance across all simulation studies.
    • In scenarios where assumptions were violated, the new methods showed substantially reduced estimation errors (one-fifth to one-half) compared to state-of-the-art methods.
    • Analysis of the sepsis cohort yielded effect estimates that align with established clinical understanding.

    Conclusions:

    • The developed methods offer a more robust and reliable approach to estimating continuous exposure effects in clinical research.
    • These methods improve upon existing techniques, particularly in situations with violated assumptions or gradual exposure changes.
    • The findings suggest potential for enhanced precision in clinical trial analysis and real-world evidence interpretation.