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Home Research Research Library Simulating Patients with Parallel Health State Networks Simulating Patients with Parallel Health State Networks 1998 Author(s) Sumner, W, Truszczynski, M, and Marek, V W Topic(s) Education & Training, and Family Medicine Certification Keyword(s) Clinical Simulation Volume AMIA Symposium Source AMIA Symposium The American Board of Family Practice is developing a computer-based recertification process to generate patient simulations from a knowledge base. Simulated patients require a stochastically generated history and response to treatment, suggesting a Monte Carlo-like patient generation process. Knowledge acquisition experiments revealed that description of a patient’s overall health as a node in a Monte Carlo model was difficult for domain experts to use, severely limited knowledge reusability, and created a plethora of awkwardly defined health states. We explored a model in which patients traverse several parallel health state networks simultaneously, so that overall health is a vector describing the current nodes from every Parallel Network. This model has a reasonable biological basis, more easily defined data, and greatly improved reuse potential, at the cost of more complex simulation algorithms. Experiments using osteoarthritis stages, weight classification, and absence or presence of gastric ulcers as three Parallel Networks demonstrate the feasibility of this approach to simulating patients. Read More ABFM Research Read all 1990 Predictive validity of the American Board of Family Practice In-Training Examination Go to Predictive validity of the American Board of Family Practice In-Training Examination 2011 Variation over time in preventable hospitalization rates across counties Go to Variation over time in preventable hospitalization rates across counties 2019 New Allopathic Medical Schools Train Fewer Family Physicians Than Older Ones. Go to New Allopathic Medical Schools Train Fewer Family Physicians Than Older Ones. 2017 Increased Public Accountability for Hospital Nonprofit Status: Potential Impacts on Residency Positions Go to Increased Public Accountability for Hospital Nonprofit Status: Potential Impacts on Residency Positions
Author(s) Sumner, W, Truszczynski, M, and Marek, V W Topic(s) Education & Training, and Family Medicine Certification Keyword(s) Clinical Simulation Volume AMIA Symposium Source AMIA Symposium
ABFM Research Read all 1990 Predictive validity of the American Board of Family Practice In-Training Examination Go to Predictive validity of the American Board of Family Practice In-Training Examination 2011 Variation over time in preventable hospitalization rates across counties Go to Variation over time in preventable hospitalization rates across counties 2019 New Allopathic Medical Schools Train Fewer Family Physicians Than Older Ones. Go to New Allopathic Medical Schools Train Fewer Family Physicians Than Older Ones. 2017 Increased Public Accountability for Hospital Nonprofit Status: Potential Impacts on Residency Positions Go to Increased Public Accountability for Hospital Nonprofit Status: Potential Impacts on Residency Positions
1990 Predictive validity of the American Board of Family Practice In-Training Examination Go to Predictive validity of the American Board of Family Practice In-Training Examination
2011 Variation over time in preventable hospitalization rates across counties Go to Variation over time in preventable hospitalization rates across counties
2019 New Allopathic Medical Schools Train Fewer Family Physicians Than Older Ones. Go to New Allopathic Medical Schools Train Fewer Family Physicians Than Older Ones.
2017 Increased Public Accountability for Hospital Nonprofit Status: Potential Impacts on Residency Positions Go to Increased Public Accountability for Hospital Nonprofit Status: Potential Impacts on Residency Positions
