Agent-based modeling for the self-management of chronic diseases: An exploratory study

作者:Montagna Sara*; Omicini Andrea
来源:Simulation-Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 2017, 93(9): 781-793.
DOI:10.1177/0037549717712605

摘要

The impact of mobile technologies on healthcare is particularly evident in the case of self-management of chronic diseases, where they can decrease spending and improve life quality of patients. We propose the adoption of agent-based modeling and simulation techniques as built-in tools to dynamically monitor the state of patient health and provide recommendations for self-management. To demonstrate the feasibility of our proposal we focus on Type 1 diabetes mellitus as our case study, and provide simulation results where the dynamic evolution of signal parameters is shown in the case of healthy and Type 1 diabetes mellitus patients, focussing in particular on the beneficial effects that self-management interventions have on plasma glucose values.

  • 出版日期2017-9