Duncan Smith

  1. A Novel Chronic Disease Policy Model.

    Authors: Nathan Green, Duncan Smith, Matthew Sperrin, Iain Buchan
    Subjects: Applications
    Abstract

    We develop a simulation tool to support policy-decisions about healthcare for
    chronic diseases in defined populations. Incident disease-cases are generated
    in-silico from an age-sex characterised general population using standard
    epidemiological approaches. A novel disease-treatment model then simulates
    continuous life courses for each patient using discrete event simulation.
    Ideally, the discrete event simulation model would be inferred from complete
    longitudinal healthcare data via a likelihood or Bayesian approach.

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