Estimating the impact of lifestyle changes on treatment outcomes for people with knee osteoarthritis through system dynamics simulation modelling
Masilionyte, Milda and McLean, Ian and Harding, Oliver and Doostmohammadi, Mahdi (2021) Estimating the impact of lifestyle changes on treatment outcomes for people with knee osteoarthritis through system dynamics simulation modelling. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 72 (12). pp. 2649-2660. ISSN 0160-5682 (https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2020.1806743)
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Abstract
With the increasing number of patients suffering from knee osteoarthritis, the UK National Health Service is considering introducing a new treatment option that would focus on lifestyle changes. This study aims to develop a novel model that could serve as a tool to estimate the impact of such an intervention on treatment outcomes. In collaboration with the Forth Valley Royal Hospital, Larbert, United Kingdom, the model was formulated as a system dynamics simulation model and was built using Insight Maker, a web-based modelling tool. To the best of our knowledge, this paper is the first to employ system dynamics to tackle this problem. The simulations were run for several confgurations to better understand the potential impact of advanced lifestyle treatment under various scenarios. The results for the most expected scenario suggest that introducing advanced lifestyle treatment would increase the average number of recovered patients by 4%, and reduce the average numbers of temporarily disabled, permanently disabled and deceased patients by 21%, 9% and 4%, respectively. The results also reveal that even with low advanced lifestyle treatment acceptance rates, the treatment outcomes could improve without any changes to current resources.
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Masilionyte, Milda, McLean, Ian, Harding, Oliver and Doostmohammadi, Mahdi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6865-8058;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 73553 Dates: DateEvent2 December 2021Published27 August 2020Published Online31 July 2020AcceptedSubjects: Social Sciences > Industries. Land use. Labor > Management. Industrial Management Department: Strathclyde Business School > Management Science Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 11 Aug 2020 14:42 Last modified: 19 Sep 2024 00:47 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/73553