Decision making accuracy depends on ecological validity of indicator uses and subjective use of cues (fallible tangible indicators) Extended to clinical risk and action in IM-62657 See medical decision making 2016 article abstract
Brunswik Lens Model
Michael Marmot's Eur J Epidemiol Essay 2017 See also IM-62760 Social determinants of health from Michael Marmot's ABC 2016 Boyer Lectures on Social Justice and the Health Gap
Social Justice, Epidemiology and Health Inequalities
An example of why it's so critical to understand where the boundaries are when considering a system. Go to Gene's version insight
Clone of Hospital Early Discharge Boundaries (Old version)
Based on Psychological Medicine Dec 2015 article Depression as a systemic syndrome: mapping the feedback loops of major depressive disorder by A. K. Wittenborn, H. Rahmandad, J. Rick and N. Hosseinichimeh, mentioned here. See also 2018 N. Hosseinichimeh Plos ONE article for rumination focussed SD simulation
Depression Dynamics
WIP Understanding pathways to observed effects complex causation Pathways Moving to Opportunity NYC example from Nate Osgood's big data lecture youtube video Feb 2017 Sydney.
Potential and actual causal mechanisms
Chronic Malnutrition Stock Flow Map
Gross theory of emotion regulation from Saras Chung ISDC 2015
Abstract See also Tibor Bosse's Computational model paper
Emotion Regulation and Stress
Based on Ransohoff DF, McNaughton Collins M, Fowler FJ. Why is prostate cancer screening so common when the evidence is so uncertain? A system without negative feedback. Am J Med. 2002;113:663-7. See IM-15991 for a generic Stock Flow Map
Prostate Cancer Screening
Proceso de contagios en COVID19
Replaced by IM-752 Causal Loop Rich Picture unfolding from Repenning, N. and J. Sterman (2002). Capability Traps and Self-Confirming Attribution Errors in the Dynamics of Process Improvement. Administrative Science Quarterly, 47: 265 - 295. http://jsterman.scripts.mit.edu/docs/Repenning-2002-CapabilityTraps.pdf
Capability Traps
Kidney replacement therapy dynamics extended to dialysis management
Kidney Dialysis and Transplant CLD Extended
Major stocks and flows of Erythropoiesis and Erythropoiesis Stimulating Agents (ESA) Dosing in Anemia due to Renal Failure from Jim Rogers. See Simulation Insight
ESA Dosing in Renal Anemia
From Jennifer Prah Ruger (2010) Health Capability Conceptualization and Operationalization Am J Public Health 100 p41-49 available from SSRN Extended slightly in IM-791 so use of this is deprecated.
Health Capability Map
WIP for Continuity of care ISO From Wikipedia Initial Insight Representation from ContSys
IM-4008 with split off
patient and professional statecharts See
IM-2846 for Agent with infectious disease and
IM-6913 for ED Physician INteraction
Clinical Process with Patient and Professional States
A stock flow structure used to investigate interventions to improve the monthly patterns of patient flows through hospitals. Simplest structure to explain IM-10386 Expanded in IM-13966
Hospital flows monthly pattern
Clone of IM-11079, incorporating Mark Heffernan's SImple SD ithink v10 Model of Hospital Patient Flow done for particle filtering in September 2014
Patient Flows ED and Wards
A work in progress model for ED hourly arrival flows based on reported statistics by triage category with individual triage categories dis-aggregated using vectors. Based on a hospital performance report from http://www.bhi.nsw.gov.au/publications/hospital_quarterly_3
Split of IM-2166
ED flows by triage categories with hourly arrival
Created in James Madison University's ISAT 341 Simulation and Modeling course by Joseph Straub and Andrew Funkhouser. Based on Mark Heffernan's Glucose-Insulin Insight Maker
Glucose Insulin Model Info:
Translated from Hormone.stm in Dynamic Modeling in the Health Sciences James L hargrove, Springer 1998, Ch 24 p255-261, by Mark Heffernan.
Type 1 Diabetes
Showing how multiple effect loops for private patients in public hospitals can be represented as a causal loop diagram (CLD)
Causal loop diagram for loops of public private hospital funding
Medical Sustainability_p3
Update to the original IM-636 from around 2002 based on 2017 discussion/inquiry into improving private health insurance in Australia
Health Insurance and Service Dynamics Update
A causal loop diagram of thermostat action including conversions between heat and temperature and outside temperature. The simulation model is at Insightmaker 393
Thermostat causal loop diagram
From David Rees PhD dissertation "Developing a Theory of Implementation for
Better Chronic Health Management" Health Services Research
Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Implementing Chronic Care Management
Addition of glucagon hormone action to control glucose homeostasis extended from IM-586
Glucose regulation CLD 2
