Basics of Modelling in Healthcare

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Department of Biomedical Technology

Synopsis:

Basic concepts and principles of systems modelling in general. Theoretical and application analysis of the properties of models representing mainly models used in the evaluation of health technologies, as well as models from operations research, game theory and epidemiology.

Requirements:

culpable participation in exercises, a maximum of three absences during the semester are allowed. The course is completed with a graded credit. The student actively participates in solving exercises. The student must take the final test for a maximum of 50 points, which must be completed with a minimum of 50%. Evaluation according to the ECTS scale.

Syllabus of lectures:

•Introduction to modeling. Basic concepts of modeling and simulation. General modelling principles.

•Algorithmization of a simulation model. Representation of state changes. Time representation

•Validation of models. Optimization of models. Evaluation of simulation results. Visualisation of simulation results

•Basics of decision trees.

•Basics of Markov models.

•Basics of Discrete Event Simulations.

•Basics of microsimulation

•Modeling methods used in operations research.

•Game theory.

•Epidemiological models.

Syllabus of tutorials:

•Software modalities used in modelling and simulation. Introduction to their functionalities (R, Rstudio, Witness).

•Conceptual model design - states, model inputs, probability calculations for probabilistic models.

•Creation and calculation of decision tree, design of Markov models

•Discrete Event Simulation (basic model creation, disease model creation, queueing model creation)

•Basic types of epidemiological models.

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Study materials:

[1]HUNNINK, M.G.M., WEINSTEIN, M.C.: Decision Making in Health and Medicine, Cambridge University Press, 2014, ISBN: 978-1-107-69047-9.

[2]BRIGGS, Andrew H., Karl CLAXTON a Mark J. SCULPHER. Decision modelling for health economic evaluation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. x, 237 s. Handbooks in health economic evaluation series. ISBN 0-19-852662-8. 4.

[3]DRUMMOND, Michael et al. Methods for the economic evaluation of health care programmes. 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xv, 379 s. Oxford medical publications. ISBN 0-19-852945-7.

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No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Systematic Integration of Prosesses of Healthcare (compulsory elective course)