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Decision Models and Technology Can Help Psychiatry Develop Biomarkers
2021
Frontiers in Psychiatry
Why is psychiatry unable to define clinically useful biomarkers? We explore this question from the vantage of data and decision science and consider biomarkers as a form of phenotypic data that resolves a well-defined clinical decision. We introduce a framework that systematizes different forms of phenotypic data and further introduce the concept of decision model to describe the strategies a clinician uses to seek out, combine, and act on clinical data. Though many medical specialties rely on
doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2021.706655
pmid:34566711
pmcid:PMC8458705
fatcat:fxp2ourlwvgxnmjnnx6h5zgttm