VP diagnoses and disease onset are broadly comparable to German healthcare data¶

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Evidence · 1 study · design r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2017 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2020: tool and model accuracy changes quickly

Subclaims¶

q2 i? The distribution of VP diagnoses by ICD-10 chapter and the acute/chronic onset of diseases closely match German healthcare statistics. → Urresti-Gundlach M. 2017

Evidence¶

Urresti-Gundlach M. 2017¶

Urresti-Gundlach M., Tolks D., Kiessling C., Wagner-Menghin M., Härtl A., Hege I. (2017). Do virtual patients prepare medical students for the real world? Development and application of a framework to compare a virtual patient collection with population data. BMC Medical Education. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-017-1013-1

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Descriptive comparison of 66 coded VPs against German healthcare system data. The article reports that "The VPs represented the reality closely in terms of frequency of diagnose categories, number of diagnoses, and onset of symptoms."

"The VPs represented the reality closely in terms of frequency of diagnose categories, number of diagnoses, and onset of symptoms. This indicates that the creation process based on curricular objectives was successful."

Discussion¶

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