ArticlePharmacoEconomics2019
Cooking Up a Transparent Model Following a DICE Recipe.
Article in PharmacoEconomics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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Who cites it
2 citing papers in PubMed.
- Predicting Hospital Resource Use During COVID-19 Surges: A Simple but Flexible Discretely Integrated Condition Event Simulation of Individual Patient-Hospital Trajectories.Value in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research · 2021Article
- Improving Transparency in Decision Models: Current Issues and Potential Solutions.PharmacoEconomics · 2019Article
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Abstract
When a model is built, it tends to be an iterative process. The ideal model building process starts with constructing a top-level model (that works) and then digging deeper into the sections that need more details. A good model tends to have a long life and be both adapted and updated. A perfectly transparent first model (in whatever platform or programming language it might be) therefore tends to get increasingly convoluted. Yet, it still needs to be submitted and reviewed since it will likely be used as support to facilitate possibly multi-million Euro decisions. So, any modelling method should be able to accept substantial changes and updates of the model without compromising (any hopefully existing) transparency. One method that is gaining traction has its heritage in one of the oldest types of structured algorithms we have-the cooking recipe. Regardless of whether you are looking at a recipe for Swedish meatballs or a recipe to prepare the poisonous Fugu fish, the structure of the recipe is the same. It begins with a list of ingredients with the cooking steps to follow. Combining the 'recipe' idea with a common software like Excel
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