Challenging the role of calibration, validation and sensitivity analysis in relation to models of health care processes

Challenging the role of calibration, validation and sensitivity analysis in relation to models of health care processes

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Article ID: iaor20091222
Country: Netherlands
Volume: 11
Issue: 2
Start Page Number: 208
End Page Number: 213
Publication Date: Jun 2008
Journal: Health Care Management Science
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Many applications of Operational Research in the context of health care involve processes of calibration, validation and sensitivity analysis. Indeed these processes seem to have such an elevated status that their absence is often regarded as a marker that a study is somehow substandard. Undoubtedly this may be the case, however there may also be circumstances where it is perfectly reasonable not to use such methods. This paper concerns general principles underlying mathematical modelling, particularly in contexts where data for calibration are either poor quality or non-existent. The discussion challenges the view that modelling should necessarily be subject to formulaic calibration, validation and sensitivity analysis processes in an attempt to achieve or establish ‘accuracy’.

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