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Enhancing Medical Education with Data-Driven Software: The TrainCoMorb App.

Dimitrios Zikos¹, Neli Ragina¹, Oliver Strong¹

¹Central Michigan University, United States.

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|July 2, 2020

Summary

TrainCoMorb is a new online tool that helps medical students learn about comorbidities and their impact on patient outcomes. It uses big data and a Bayesian algorithm to simulate risks, enhancing medical education.

Keywords:

Bayesian methods Comorbidities Medical education

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Clinical Decision Support

Background:

Medical education requires effective tools for understanding complex patient cases.
Comorbidities significantly impact patient outcomes and healthcare costs.
Current training methods may not adequately address the dynamic nature of comorbidity risk.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and describe TrainCoMorb, a data-driven online application for medical students.
To enable trainees to practice recognizing comorbidities and their attributable risk.
To enhance understanding of how comorbidities affect negative clinical outcomes.

Main Methods:

Development of TrainCoMorb, an online, data-driven application.
Utilization of a large claims dataset (N=11 million).
Implementation of a dynamic Bayesian algorithm to calculate conditional probabilities for outcomes.

Main Results:

Trainees can create custom comorbidity scenarios step-by-step.
The application provides risk assessments for inpatient death, septicemia, and length of stay.
The Bayesian algorithm dynamically updates risk probabilities within scenarios.

Conclusions:

TrainCoMorb offers a novel approach to medical training on comorbidities.
The tool assists students in visualizing the attributable risk of comorbidities.
This application is expected to improve medical students' comprehension of comorbidity impact on clinical outcomes.