Can I increase the number of patients with allergies?

[nikhil-sharma2]

Hi everyone, I am trying to generate data with more patients having allergies. Currently, I am only getting 4-5 patients out of 40 male patients. I need at least 50-60% of patients to have any sort of allergies.

Is there any way to control this? Any kind of help is appreciated, thanks! :)

[jawalonoski]

You can control this by modifying the modules.

Follow the procedures described in https://github.com/synthetichealth/synthea/wiki/Generic-Module-Framework:-Running-New-Modules#modifying-existing-modules

The modules you want to edit are probably (this is a subset of all allergy modules, you can see the full list in the Module Builder):

• https://synthetichealth.github.io/module-builder/#allergies
• https://synthetichealth.github.io/module-builder/#allergies/drug_allergy_incidence
• https://synthetichealth.github.io/module-builder/#allergies/environmental_allergy_incidence
• https://synthetichealth.github.io/module-builder/#allergies/food_allergy_incidence
• https://synthetichealth.github.io/module-builder/#allergies/outgrow_env_allergies
• https://synthetichealth.github.io/module-builder/#allergies/outgrow_food_allergies

[nikhil-sharma2]

@jawalonoski - thanks a lot for the quick reply. I am new to Synthea's codebase so troubling you again with a small query here.
Let's say I want to increase the occurrence of Bee_Allergy can you please tell me the change that I need to do in this module? Attaching photo for reference:

[jawalonoski]

Click on "Chance_of_Bee_Allergy" and on editing panel (on the left), find the "Weight" fields and adjust the probability as you prefer.

[nikhil-sharma2]

@jawalonoski - you are a lifesaver, thanks a ton!! 🚀 😄