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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 2021 Comparison of Maternity Care Training in Family Medicine Residencies 2013 and 2019: A CERA Program Directors Study Go to Comparison of Maternity Care Training in Family Medicine Residencies 2013 and 2019: A CERA Program Directors Study 2011 The reliability of ABFM examinations: implications for test-takers Go to The reliability of ABFM examinations: implications for test-takers 2011 Engagement of family physicians seven years into maintenance of certification Go to Engagement of family physicians seven years into maintenance of certification 2021 Using the Family Medicine National Graduate Survey to Improve Residency Education by Monitoring Training Outcomes Go to Using the Family Medicine National Graduate Survey to Improve Residency Education by Monitoring Training Outcomes
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