Intervention Granularity Matters: Coherent Treatment Bundles in Counterfactual Simulation with Clinical World Models
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TL;DR - This paper shows that counterfactual predictions from clinical world models depend materially on whether treatments are edited as isolated settings or coherent bundles. Bundle-aware interventions produced larger predicted patient-state changes, suggesting that single-component edits may understate treatment sensitivity.
- An audit of 945,707 MIMIC-IV patient-hours found that many treatment components, such as dialysis parameters, only occur together.
- Using Clin-JEPA, the authors studied 1,019 documented onsets of invasive ventilation while holding patient history and other treatments fixed.
- Replacing a complete ventilator configuration with one from a similar real patient shifted the predicted next state more than changing any single setting, consistently across five settings.
- The difference persisted after accounting for the magnitude of each input edit, supporting clinically coherent treatment bundles for counterfactual simulation.
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Intervention Granularity Matters: Coherent Treatment Bundles in Counterfactual Simulation with Clinical World Models
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TL;DR - This paper shows that counterfactual predictions from clinical world models depend materially on whether treatments are edited as isolated settings or coherent bundles. Bundle-aware interventions produced larger predicted patient-state changes, suggesting that single-component edits may understate treatment sensitivity.
- An audit of 945,707 MIMIC-IV patient-hours found that many treatment components, such as dialysis parameters, only occur together.
- Using Clin-JEPA, the authors studied 1,019 documented onsets of invasive ventilation while holding patient history and other treatments fixed.
- Replacing a complete ventilator configuration with one from a similar real patient shifted the predicted next state more than changing any single setting, consistently across five settings.
- The difference persisted after accounting for the magnitude of each input edit, supporting clinically coherent treatment bundles for counterfactual simulation.