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Area of Science:

  • Biostatistics
  • Health Informatics
  • Clinical Data Analysis

Background:

  • Longitudinal data analysis is crucial for understanding patient treatment outcomes.
  • Existing tools struggle to integrate complex, multilayered time-series clinical data effectively.
  • There is a need for advanced frameworks to analyze patient journeys and treatment effectiveness.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop ShinyEvents, a web-based framework for analyzing complex longitudinal patient data.
  • To enable interactive visualization and cohort-level analysis of clinical events and treatment pathways.
  • To facilitate real-world progression-free survival (rwPFS) analysis and associate treatment lines with outcomes.

Main Methods:

  • Developed ShinyEvents, a user-friendly, web-based platform for longitudinal data integration.
  • Implemented interactive timeline generation for individual patient clinical events.
  • Enabled cohort-level analyses including treatment clustering, endpoint definition, Sankey, and Swimmer diagrams, and survival analysis (Kaplan-Meier, Cox regression).

Main Results:

  • ShinyEvents successfully integrates multilayered longitudinal patient data.
  • The framework provides interactive visualizations (Sankey, Swimmer diagrams) for treatment lines and clinical courses.
  • The tool enables real-time survival analysis, including rwPFS, and associates treatment strategies with outcomes.

Conclusions:

  • ShinyEvents offers a comprehensive solution for complex longitudinal data analysis in healthcare.
  • The framework facilitates a deeper understanding of treatment effectiveness and patient outcomes.
  • ShinyEvents supports real-time integration and analysis of multilayered patient journey data.