Guidelines for Computer Modeling of Diabetes and Its Complications
Response to Bagust and McEwan
- Richard Kahn, PHD
- From the American Diabetes Association, Alexandria, Virginia
- Address correspondence to Richard Kahn, PhD, Chief Scientific and Medical Officer, American Diabetes Association, National Office, 1701 N. Beauregard St., Alexandria, VA 22311. Email: rkahn{at}diabetes.org
As Bagust and McEwan (1) indicate, diabetes models are being used for a variety of purposes, such as patient management, public health policy, and economic evaluation. Potential “end-users” of the results from modeling studies turn to this technology largely because evidence from empirical studies is lacking and cannot be easily or quickly obtained .
As our consensus statement points out, if the results from modeling studies are to be believed, the end-user must have confidence that the model itself “accurately and reliably” represents the real world, in which the subsequent modeling study …
