Only congestive_heart_failure patients

[johagg17]

Requested Feature

Hi,

I am working on a project where I will use Synthea to generate patient records, for heart failure patients.
I saw that you provide the 'congestive_heart_failure' module, but when I run the program as below, only a small portion of the patients is related to the HF, i.e. length of patient.csv is as specified 500k patients while conditions.csv only contains a few.

run_synthea -p 500000 -a 18-90 -m congestive_heart_failure

Why is this the case, and is there any way I can generate records such that all 500k patients are related to the congestive_heart_failure module?

Thanks for now, and thanks for providing such a great tool as Synthea.

[jawalonoski]

One issue is likely to be your use of the M feature. Please see this page of discussion on the M feature: https://github.com/synthetichealth/synthea/wiki/The--M-Feature

If you want only CHF patients, I would suggest not using the M feature (omit that completely and run all the disease models together), and add a Keep Module.

See this page about Keep Modules: https://github.com/synthetichealth/synthea/wiki/Keep-Patients-Module

[johagg17]

Hi,

Thank you, one final question,

I experience some issues when trying to run the -k command, and the program does not seem to find the keep module file.

Error: java.io.FileNotFoundException: specified keep-patients file (keep_heart_failure.json) does not exist.

Where should I put this Keep Module file, same as the other modules (MyComputer\synthea\src\main\resources\modules)?

Thanks, once again.

[jawalonoski]

I tend to keep them directly in the root folder of the project (in the same level as the run_synthea script).

You don't want to add them to the other modules, because you don't want the program to consider them to be actual disease models.

So, if I have a file keep.json I just keep it in the root Synthea directory and run ./run_synthea -k keep.json (with whatever other parameters you may also want).